The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing

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.

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

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.

The inevitableness the idealism and the blessing of war as an indispensable and stimulating law of development must be repeatedly emphasized.

In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one's books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.

Light by its very nature is endless. Therefore you can never say you've had the ultimate experience in light - it goes on forever.

Trying to do better is trying to be better than you actually are, and I don't think you can do that.

Max lifted his head, with great sorrow and great astonishment. 'There were stars,' He said. 'They burned my eyes.’ ...from a Himmel street window, he wrote, the stars set fire to my eyes.

Savor the moments that are warm and special and giggly.

A fair and generous woman is (at best) respected, but seldom loved.