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

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.

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.

Christ is the core of my child's curriculum.

Is it difficult to recognize spring when the air is dancing with joy and the flowers are blooming bright colorful smiles?

Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?

Let nothing disturb thee, Nothing affright thee; All things are passing; God never changeth; Patient endurance Attaineth to all things; Who God possesseth In nothing is wanting; Alone God sufficeth.

Why would they have book covers if we aren't supposed to judge the book by them? It makes no sense.

With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.

Always remember, nothing can touch you if you inwardly love God.

Nothing is higher than the love of truth.

Failure is a signpost to turn you in another direction.

I've always been quite shy. Very confident but very shy.