So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone

What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.

I'm fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with.

It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.

Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.

You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it

The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.

This life of being a transient human being has gotten to a point when it's very hard to bear

People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don't understand about that nonsense. It's like, all instruments are there to use all the time

In a way, I started out to be a baritone player.

Eliminating the piano means that I've always worked closer with the bass than most players.

I want to create, not kill.

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.

Actually, it would be assumed that the young lady had no such impulses at all, but I’ll tell you something: Chocolate melts on my tongue too.

If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive enthusiasm as the generations that discovered the New World.

Healing the Earth, through Healing Birth.

Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.

There's something so wonderful about being an actor in New York.

The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body-builder.

The time eras that I really like are more on '50s and '60s.

Having a pulmonary embolism is definitely easier than heart break.