Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn't know that at first.

The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity.

Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.

There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else's language.

Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo.

The potential for the saxophone is unlimited.

Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.

You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others.

I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever.

It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing.

I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.

Showing off is more ridiculous in instances where the thing that is being shown off was bought on credit.

My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what's important to me.

The Republican Party is not in the hands of the Jewish lobby in America as the Democratic Party must look quite often to Jewish money to finance candidates.

Honesty with ourselves & others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way.

It is in your power to release the ability of God.

A three-year diet of rubber chicken and occasional crow.

Priests, altars, victims, swam before my sight.

Few men are both rich and generous; fewer are both rich and humble.

Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.

But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.