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

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.

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

Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.

One lost easiest what one held in one’s arms— never what one left.

I will always wear this scar. It's called love.

Modelling is a silly, crazy business.

Religion is the idol of the mob it adores everything it does not understand.

To make something you have to be something.

In principle, skeptics are neither closed-minded nor cynical. We are curious but cautious.

I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the dead bodies of their masters.

In America, if you want to make it as a golfer, you go to college on a scholarship. In Australia, you go to the airport with a plane ticket. The competition just isn't there.

You want the world to be set up for you, but sometimes it just isn't.