I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.

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.

The prettiest of them all is a girl who is pretty on the inside.

Oh, cold world -- I have grown so weary of you and all your horrible bathrooms.

Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow / No tomorrow, no tomorrow.

We who didn't inherit political power nor are made to acquire riches like nothing better than that which expands and solidifies the power of the spirit.

I grew up with boys of all kinds - I have two brothers, and I was in a bagpipe band for several years.

Grief brims itself and flows away in tears.

You can't believe everything you read. It's never been more true.

When there's a pattern of mistakes, something has got to change.

True confidence comes from realizing the view.

We buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.