"If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying."

Music should always be an adventure.

I don't think about music as being new or modern. I just play.

I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else

Some of my biggest moments have been in jam sessions, but I don't want to talk about them. There were always other people involved.

If you don't make mistakes you are not really trying.

There's no such thing as bop music, but there's such a thing as progress.

Some people say there was no jazz tenor before me. All I know is I just had a way of playing and I didn't think in terms of any other instrument but the tenor

I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I play

You can separate the men from the boys and ballads.

...Chief without soldiers is just a very lonely man in a big bloody field

Goals are dreams with deadlines.

Whatever life throws at me I'll take it and be grateful for it as well.

Your boyfriend had a dream about potatoes and you're asking me to interpret it? I'm just old. Being old doesn't mean you know more; it means you ate enough fiber.

The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.

One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is.

Her silence was the blank space between the words.

King and Arum are alike. One's black and one's white. That's the only difference.

Mostly, drawings are things I make for myself - I do them in sketchbooks. They are mental experiments - private inner thoughts when I'm not sure what will come out.

I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.