Eliminating the piano means that I've always worked closer with the bass than most players.

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.

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

I never want to produce anything that a family could not enjoy together. I never want to create art that would embarrass my own children later.

I wanted to talk to very young kids about self-image and about being different and how that can be your strength, especially from the immigrant perspective.

What's the point of being a grown-up if you can't indulge the kid inside you every now and then?

Astronomy is the science of the harmony of infinite expanse.

Tell me something wicked.

The once-unthinkable loss of the AAA rating will constitute a further hit to already fragile business and consumer confidence.

The very rich only admire themselves

The ignorant Insults of Individuals will not hinder me from doing my duty to my Art

With caution judge of probability. Things deemed unlikely, e'en impossible, experience oft hath proved to be true.