I learn something new every day - to edit, to take out all the extraneous matter and stress form, logic, and content. I try to play beautiful music.

You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.

If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice.

A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.

You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.

The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body.

Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz.

There are four qualities essential to a great jazzman. they are taste, courage, individuality, and irreverence.

The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul.

I cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won't come out.

I practiced saxophone eight hours a day for the first two years I played.

I didn't wait for Luck. I raced after it with a truck.

If it's true that men are such beasts this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.

After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

Drugs kill, just like cancer. So don't smoke... tumors.

It is doubtful whether anyone who has travelled widely has found anywhere in the world regions more ugly than in the human face.

We need an energy bill that encourages consumption.

Up at the crank of dawn.

Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.

Death holds no allure for me, Elena.” The power of him cut against his skin, a cold white fire. “Not when I have yet to sate my hunger for you.