Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same.

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.

Where there is love, things roll.

Do not panic but pray when you face any problem.

Spiritual knowledge is fruitful only when it is applied

Wills aren't really strong or weak

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.

There's only one possibility: win, draw or loose.

A frightened man is a beaten man.

We can't stop living because other people are dead.

I loved working with kids, and kids are the most incredibly discerning audience. And if they don't believe you, they will tell you and let you know. I mean, kids is where it's at, really.

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.