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

Music should always be an adventure.

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

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.

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.

It is when we stop believing that religions have been handed down from above or else that they are entirely daft that matters become more interesting.

Difficulties are meant to rouse not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

You've got to know the rules to break them.

I have already expressed my opinion on this subject in treating of rent, and have now only further to add, that rent is a creation of value, as I understand that word, but not a creation of wealth.

Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.

The more you do, the more you fail. The more you fail, the more you learn. The more you learn, the better you get.

The sum of the parts equals less than the whole. Or the howl. Or the how. Or the hole.

It was like a miracle. I'm just feeling fabulous. What's incredible is someone has given your life back. I'm out in the garden today. This time last year I was looking out a window at a hospital.

I think that's part of people wanting a wholesome life, to surround yourself with farm animals and fields. That's sort of an American ideal.

Why is it so damn hard for people to talk?