I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone.

The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity.

Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.

There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else's language.

Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo.

The potential for the saxophone is unlimited.

Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.

You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others.

I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever.

It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing.

I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.

We become what we behold.

But you, children of space, you restless in rest, you shall not be trapped nor tamed.

If my mom told one more story about how cute I looked in the bathtub when I was three years old I was going to burrow into the snow and freeze myself to death.

The failure of the White House and Congress to seriously address the nation's fiscal situation is certain to broaden the belief among many voters that the U.S. political system is broken.

I think one of the big challenges about science fiction is finding truth to relate to as an actor.

I call myself a blind man riding on a blind tiger.

Be the ugly one, look at the nice one.

It is not discrimination to treat different things differently.

I have a Sharpie. I love Sharpies. You know what they say on them? Not for letter writing. That sucks. Now I have to communicate with my dad using numbers.

They met so near with their lips that their breaths embraced together.