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

Music should always be an adventure.

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

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

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

You can separate the men from the boys and ballads.

God desires to free our country from darkness through our active civil position.

YouTube is akin to having my own network.

I would hope that Europe always has a privileged relationship with the United States. The alternatives are not attractive.

In one of the scenes [in the Ordinary World], you can see a little cameo of my son, who's in the party. You've just gotta bring it all back home.

Art is for stimulation, excitement, adventure.

I wish the opera was every night. It is, of all entertainments, the sweetest and most delightful. Some of the songs seemed to melt my very soul.

Hee is a foole that thinks not that another thinks.

Truly I have looked in the very heart of darkness and refused to yield to its paralyzing influence, but in spirit I am one of those who walk the morning.

A lot of songs are inspiration and help people through pain, grief and loss.

Wonderful things start to happen when you dream outside of your sleep.