I've done some dastardly things but what can I do except make amends and apologize?

You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.

If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice.

A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.

You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.

The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body.

Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz.

There are four qualities essential to a great jazzman. they are taste, courage, individuality, and irreverence.

The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul.

I cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won't come out.

I practiced saxophone eight hours a day for the first two years I played.

Every flower displays its beautiful colours in autumn.

. . . I still wouldn't be able to control myself around him, and I'm math geek enough to know that equation doesn't work out.

The day was so wonderful that Bonaventure thought it would taste like cherry pie if he took a bite of it.

Whenever I see John Lewis, I invariably say, 'Thank you.' And I will never stop. I don't know how he's still standing, because what he endured took courage and strength that I don't know that I have.

I quit my job in the bank when I was 19. I took a chance. I went to Milan to study opera and singing. My father really supported me economically.

Very simply, the culture of another people does not have to be accepted when it is subhuman!

The whole point about thinking brilliantly is about knowing your identity and the favor you have in Christ

Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.

Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners.

I remember the actor Dale Robertson said he quit acting when he got tired of having to hold his stomach in. I feel that way sometimes.