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

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.

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.

In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds.

Everything I do nowWas once an unremembered dream.-Spoken by Dr. Perry after return from the chrysalis

THERE IS NO JUSTICE" said Death "JUST ME

Most of the choices we make each day may feel like the products of well-considered decision making, but they’re not. They’re habits.

In the house of a Fidler, all fiddle. [In the house of the fiddler all fiddle.]

Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Some of my favorite movies are Hollywood movies. Hollywood is part of the cinematic spectrum. I nurture a healthy love-hate relationship with Hollywood.

What is Zen? Zen is looking at things with the eye of God, that is, becoming the thing's eyes so that it looks at itself with our eyes.

The loony legacy of money was that the arithmetic by which things were measured had become more valuable than the things themselves.