I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down.

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.

A friend is not the shadow that mimics you, but the one who casts all shadows away.

She was a perfectly clean slate--a total enigma.

As soon as you take money for playing sport, it isn't sport, it's work.

Yes - Action is the key! Cuz - when we take action we get a result - it might not always be the result we want but nevertheless it's a result - something we can learn from.

Our meeting, touching, accidentally connecting immediately, interwoven hand-in-hand, heart-to-heart.

If any of you have a desire to be mediocre, you will probably find that you have already achieved your ambition.

Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.

I would rather marry a good man, a man of mind, with a hope and bright prospects ahead for position, fame and power than to marry all the houses, gold and bones in the world.

Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.

I'm glad the truth is out. I'm glad everyone knows I'm innocent, not guilty.