It's just music. It's playing clean and looking for the pretty notes.

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.

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

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.

You'll forgive the flowery talk, won't you? Our family does so love to be told they are beautiful. Vanity is an old and venerable habit.

Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.

Sergeant O'Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.

Every human being has appetites difficult to control but far fewer have humility, gentleness, and an awareness of their weaknesses.

Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

An undertaking beset with danger.

Love is not an experience. Love is what you are.

The quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter in LA. I would never raise any child there.

If you wish to get hold of the invisible you must penetrate as deeply as possible into the visible.

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.