If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.

Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.

Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.

You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.

Don't be afraid, just play the music.

Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born.

I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker would have never played anything but swing music.

I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

Man, there's no boundary line to art!

Novels are food for the leftover hours of life, the in-between times, the moments of waiting.

We can’t really explain what the goal of mentoring is, until we understand what the church is for.

There are defendants whom the judges are afraid of.

Working from photos makes you a little more analytical, a little more cerebral, because you're less connected to the intensity of life.

I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition.

Love is more important than what we can take...Please say with me three times-Love! Love! Love!

It’s amazing what lies people can sustain behind the mask of their real faces.

Getting a new passport took me a stupid amount of time. I had to go back five times with different photographs because they kept saying I was smiling, which is against the rules. I was not smiling.

You can spend so much time wanting someone and they can have absolutely no idea.

Childhood was a fantastic country to live in.