Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born.

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.

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.

Man, there's no boundary line to art!

Love doesn't have to be perfect, but it needs to be true.

...what is the use of making everybody rich if the rich themselves are miserable?

Nothing in life prepares you to be famous.

Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal.

Age is suspicious but is not itself often suspected.

Oh, what company good poets are!

You may be exhausted with work, you may even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless. To work without love is slavery.

New York is like traveling without actually moving.

People in red states and blue states can agree that clean air is better than dirty air; therefore we should use clean energy where we can.

Shrink, shrink variation, to reduce the loss.