First you learn the instrument, then you learn the music, then you forget all that s**t and just play.

Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.

Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.

You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.

Don't be afraid, just play the music.

Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born.

I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker would have never played anything but swing music.

If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.

I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

The love of nature begins with the love for God

How gracious to forgive the people who hurt you

Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you how to stop suffering. That is its purpose.

I looked at her for three seconds, or five perhaps, with fearful hatred-that hate which is only a hair's-breath from love, from the maddest love!

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

The biological clock and the career clock are in total conflict with each other.

Everything we see in nature is manifested truth; only we are not able to recognize it unless truth is manifest within ourselves.

Only the small things in life are important

Your Texas is no different than my Texas.

There's so much more I want to do. I refuse to get to 50 and wait at home for the phone to ring. In Spain, actresses work until they are old. That's my plan.