Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz.

You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.

If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice.

A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.

You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.

The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body.

There are four qualities essential to a great jazzman. they are taste, courage, individuality, and irreverence.

The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul.

I cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won't come out.

I practiced saxophone eight hours a day for the first two years I played.

You know, when I'm playing, I think of myself in front of the Wailing Wall with a saxophone in my hands, and I'm davening, I'm really telling it to the Wall.

Kau tak boleh mengukur kemampuan seseorang dari usianya.

Curiosity is the hunger of the mind.

Tis the moment where a decision is set to alter the course of her destiny. She walks toward the light where he patiently awaits her arrival.

Worry is the cross which we make for ourselves by overanxiety.

I like to walk around with bare feet and I don't like to comb my hair.

It is not a choice of life, it is a choice of death. If this is life, I'd rather die.

Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.

Interference with communications of science to the public has been greater during the current administration than at any time in my career.

Return animosity with virtue.

We have power over nothing except our will.