It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.

What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.

I'm fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with.

Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.

You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it

The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.

So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone

This life of being a transient human being has gotten to a point when it's very hard to bear

People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don't understand about that nonsense. It's like, all instruments are there to use all the time

In a way, I started out to be a baritone player.

Eliminating the piano means that I've always worked closer with the bass than most players.

If you can't explain why someone should pay attention to what you're saying, maybe you shouldn't be saying it.

My brother was a lifeguard in a car wash.

Today we are confronted with reality on the vastest scale mankind has known and this puts a greater responsibility on the photographer.

The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred, feel themselves born to ride us.

About what we neither know nor feel precisely while awake-whether we have a good or a bad conscience toward a certain person-our dreams instruct us fully and unambiguously.

Everything's funny for God's sake. Everything.

I'm not saying that everything I do is always tasteful - and maybe it's not always the normal idea of beauty - but hopefully it's always an empowering idea.

From the movie, The Boy Who Could Fly Somewhere, deep inside, we can all fly.

Persistence is stubbornness with a purpose.

A chemist who is not a physicist is nothing at all.