Before the work comes to you, you have to invent work.

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.

What man is able to do that, that thou should ask such things of me?

Life is a windowless room in the Hotel Bellevue.

There is no shame in losing to the sword of the Prince. There is only shame in choosing not to follow Him.

You don’t have to live your life the way other people expect you to.

The English public doesn't really like Shakespeare; it prefers football.

You must be open to what otherwise may seem to be a detriment to your 'plans'.

The best joke-tellers are those who have the patience to wait for conversation to come around to the point where the jokes in their repertoire have application.

LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.

As the writer, I may choose to ignore the emotional heart of the matter, and focus on details, and trust that the heart of the matter will be conveyed nevertheless.

The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might say - exercised through the mass media.