...I have great hopes for the possibility of a dynamic universalism that respects all our people.

Is jazz a rhythm, or is it a vibration?

Everybody in America is angry about something.

I am interested in the study of music and the discipline of music and the experience of music and music as a esoteric mechanism to continue my real intentions.

I have learned through time that not everyone is interested in the kinds of things that fascinate me.

The word music is a convenient way to talk about what I'm interested in, but actually, in some ways, it's a limitation.

I would find myself backing away from all of the 'isms,' all of the communities. I have always been able to be misused by every community But that is OK. I would rather be misused than neglected.

I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world.

My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex.

I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.

I know I’m an African-American, and I know I play the saxophone, but I’m not a jazz musician. I’m not a classical musician, either. My music is like my life: It’s in between these areas.

Fate bring two people together and it is love's job to keep them there

If there is a void in your life then you will never fill it with cash!

Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.

Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation.

I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour.

The bill that was about jobs, jobs, jobs has turned into a bill that's about spending, spending, spending.

People feel that drama is more important. Dramas always earn more honors than comedy.

Music should be an elective experience. You should go, "I'm going to sit down and listen to some Beethoven, by God," and then you get to hear it.

How are we to breed a race of human thoroughbreds unless we follow the same plan? We must make this country into a garden of children instead of a disorderly back lot overrun with human weeds.

The design of good houses requires an understanding of both the construction materials and the behavior of real humans.