I appreciate men like Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins very much.

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.

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

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.

Once in jail or you just go in prison for a reason you don't have rights... So be wise, think twice and don't go there!

Wisdom of the Ages "The Marshawn" US Army's new main battle tank. Runs over enemies instead of shooting them. Biggest expense: maintaining the dreadlocks hanging off the turret.

A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.

Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.

Looking at everything through your phone is only numbing your perception - it does not really enhance your experience of life in any way.

The aim of English cricket is, in fact, mainly to beat Australia.

Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done.

In Great Britain, woman was subordinate and confined. But at least she was also safe.

Some 80% of your life is spent working. You want to have fun at home; why shouldn't you have fun at work?

We each after a while have to become reconciled to what it is that our talents and appetites lead us to.