Jazz is like wine. When it is new it's only for the experts, but when it gets older everybody wants it.

The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity.

Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.

There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else's language.

Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo.

The potential for the saxophone is unlimited.

Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.

You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others.

I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever.

It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing.

I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.

My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.

Hadn't another wise man, the Buddha himself, warned about the evils of attachment?

Nature has given the opportunity of happiness to all, knew they but how to use it.

Midway in our life's journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood.

But He Himself hath sealed your sufferings, and their thus saying condemns God, and His sealing condemns them.

Niall Quinn is a creep. The man's an idiot, a Mother Theresa.

A strong feeling of adventure is animating those who are working on bacterial viruses, a feeling that they have a small part in the great drive towards a fundamental problem in biology.

I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.

I don’t want to become as good as I once was. I want to become better.

I thought, if I went into business I'd be able to control my own destiny.