Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.

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.

A leader that doesn't sympathize have a loose string and wicked heart.

Be strong to hope, O Heart! Though day is bright, The stars can only shine In the dark night. Be strong, O Heart of mine, Look towards the light!

I am still fully committed to male-female equality.

I think it's great that she's not perfect and wasn't perfect. I think that's maybe why so many young girls and different people look up to Mac and respect her even more.

I hope that my new status will be an example of Israeli-Palestinian co-existence, I believe that the destinies of the Israeli people and the Palestinian people are inextricably linked.

I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.

If my heart is overwhelmed and I cannot hear your voice, I hold on to what is true. I will believe.

If I had to use a single word to describe what is fundamentally wrong with government today, I would use the word fraud.

Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago.

When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.