Is jazz a rhythm, or is it a vibration?

Everybody in America is angry about something.

I am interested in the study of music and the discipline of music and the experience of music and music as a esoteric mechanism to continue my real intentions.

I have learned through time that not everyone is interested in the kinds of things that fascinate me.

The word music is a convenient way to talk about what I'm interested in, but actually, in some ways, it's a limitation.

I would find myself backing away from all of the 'isms,' all of the communities. I have always been able to be misused by every community But that is OK. I would rather be misused than neglected.

I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world.

My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex.

I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.

I know I’m an African-American, and I know I play the saxophone, but I’m not a jazz musician. I’m not a classical musician, either. My music is like my life: It’s in between these areas.

So, yes, I am in the underground, but actually, it feels like home.

When you learn to feel the pain of an ant, you will truly learn to love this world.

We are gaining the knowledge science is giving us that. Now we need wisdom as well.

Whatever comes into your heart and mind when you think about God is the most important thing about you.

Proper posture sends a positive message since 90% of all communication occures through body language and how you carry yourself.

women love with their imagination and men with their senses.

Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over.

Let us answer a book of ink with a book of flesh and blood.

We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise it.

What most counts is not merely to live, but to live right.

Biocides, for example, are designed to kill bacteria—it's not a benign material.