Life on the road is murder. It's as though life begins and ends when you have your horn in your mouth.

What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.

I'm fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with.

It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.

Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.

You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it

The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.

So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone

This life of being a transient human being has gotten to a point when it's very hard to bear

People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don't understand about that nonsense. It's like, all instruments are there to use all the time

In a way, I started out to be a baritone player.

The more aspiration is partial realization.

Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.

At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.

My job is to help more people have jobs.

My mom had a soft heart after all! Instead of being chained by both wrists, we were only chained by one ankle! I mean, if I’d been looking for proof that she really did love me, this was it, right?

I've got a stag weekend coming up and I've said I'm not doing anything more than a few drinks. I won't have it. I'll go home and watch Antiques Roadshow.

Lovers are angry, reconciled, entreat, thank, appoint, and finally speak all things, by their.

Every number has a name! Every name has a story! Every story matters to God!

Man is the measure of all things, of things that are that they are, and of things that are not that they are not.

If I were the treasury secretary or head of the Fed, you know, I would try to scare the hell the out of the private sector and say, you better save this because you're going down with the ship.