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

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.

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.

You know, when I'm playing, I think of myself in front of the Wailing Wall with a saxophone in my hands, and I'm davening, I'm really telling it to the Wall.

The past is made out of facts... I guess the future is just hope.

ZERO and Infinity both are very difficult to understand and explain but at the same time both are key assumption of Mathematics...

Why should anyone else have it easy. Spoken like a true New Yorker.

France has no friends, only interests.

Don't get impatient when it takes too long.

You take a text, you explore it, you enter it with all your heart and all your mind.

Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.

And no photographs taken with the aid of flashlight either, if only out of respect of the actual light—even when there isn't any of it.

I know a girl made of memories and phrases, lives her whole life in chapters and phases.

It was easier to ask for forgiveness than permission?