I don't think about music as being new or modern. I just play.

Music should always be an adventure.

"If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying."

I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else

Some of my biggest moments have been in jam sessions, but I don't want to talk about them. There were always other people involved.

If you don't make mistakes you are not really trying.

There's no such thing as bop music, but there's such a thing as progress.

Some people say there was no jazz tenor before me. All I know is I just had a way of playing and I didn't think in terms of any other instrument but the tenor

I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I play

You can separate the men from the boys and ballads.

Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.

And it's hard to hate someone once you understand them.

A story is just a convoluted lie...with some hidden truths.

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, you're probably in the wrong bathroom.

Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb

Trust is the conduit for influence; it's the medium through which ideas travel.

some actors seek parts similar to their personalities. But, I prefer undergoing a metamorphosis that depends on the role .

Words are the mind's wings, are they not?

You can't keep a juvenile moral institution alive on two displays of its sash per year.

The only way to maintain a moderate sum of happiness in this life, is not to worry about the future or regret the past too much