A very talented player and all around excellent musician. I love hearing his records on radio!

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.

Most of the people readily accept the principle but resist its practice.

...I feel pity that she will never fully understand what it is to be loved and forgiven, then loved even more.” Pastel Orphans

There, in the Levantine crossroads between Europe, Africa, and Asia, the sovereign nation of Israel would exemplify what right looks like.

The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.

When you use a dialect, you worry that the people you're imitating will think you're making fun of them.

Labels are for cans, not for people.

It's certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

I felt so full of love for everything. But at the same time, I felt so hung out there to dry, like nobody could ever understand. I felt so alone in this world, and so loved at the same time.

Right. I’ve been missing Nutty McFang anyway.” “Stop making up names for him.” “What about Count Crackula?” “Just stop.