Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.

Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.

You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.

Don't be afraid, just play the music.

Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born.

I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker would have never played anything but swing music.

If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.

I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

Man, there's no boundary line to art!

Become a dignitary by treating others with dignity.

I'm a Pele fan from way back when I was a kid, and then there was always this thing later about Pele and Maradona. I was young and impressionable as a kid but it was always Pele for me.

Change is a direct element of hip-hop. That's the whole thing with style.

We will never be an advanced civilization as long as rain showers can delay the launching of a space rocket.

Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.

I want to invest in community colleges, training programs, and high-quality apprenticeships that help people gain the skills they need for the jobs of the future.

When I look back on my ordinary, ordinary life, I see so much magic, though I missed it at the time.

I have no intent. I have no reason to live, that's all. When I'm gone, I don't want to be remembered.

My goal as a young man, to be fat, famous and financially fixed by 50.