Register is very important. Music sounds best in a certain register.

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.

He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.

You don't need to look at the beauty to feel the love.

Life is a movie. You are the director in it. The choices you make, are the things that you will see. After you make a choice, there will be no going back, only simple things that will erase it.

Architecture should have little to do with problem solving - rather it should create desirable conditions and opportunities hitherto thought impossible.

The world is in need of an encompassing and of course, just and humane order in the light of which the rights of all are preserved and peace and security are safeguarded.

Strategy will compensate the talent. The talent will never compensate the strategy.

When we get civilised, I believe children will go by number until they get old enough to choose their own names.

It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.

General [James] Mattis has got a really intellectual mindset about how the United States should go about protecting its national security.

Living in the past is a Jethro Tull album, not a smart poker strategy.