Some people say there was no jazz tenor before me. All I know is I just had a way of playing and I didn't think in terms of any other instrument but the tenor

Music should always be an adventure.

"If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying."

I don't think about music as being new or modern. I just play.

I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else

Some of my biggest moments have been in jam sessions, but I don't want to talk about them. There were always other people involved.

If you don't make mistakes you are not really trying.

There's no such thing as bop music, but there's such a thing as progress.

I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I play

You can separate the men from the boys and ballads.

An inferiority complex distorts reality

Lewis encourages his cancer-stricken and temporarily depressed wife that uncertainty rather than hopelessness is our cross.

‎Every opportunity missed is an opportunity for regret

What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.

The business of business should not be about money. It should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed

I don't want anything bad to happen to the United States, but if North Korea ever drops a nuclear bomb on this country, I swear to God, I hope it lands in Hartford.

If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Deadlines have a lousy name. Call them live-lines instead. That´t what they are.

If you have given up your heart ... you have already lost. A heartless creature is a loveless creature, and a loveless creature is a beast.

It never occurred to me to say no.