There are four qualities essential to a great jazzman. they are taste, courage, individuality, and irreverence.

You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.

If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice.

A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.

You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.

The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body.

Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz.

The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul.

I cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won't come out.

I practiced saxophone eight hours a day for the first two years I played.

You know, when I'm playing, I think of myself in front of the Wailing Wall with a saxophone in my hands, and I'm davening, I'm really telling it to the Wall.

I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.

Like any corporation, I have the benefit of the brainpower of everyone who is working for me. It all ends up being my work, the corporate me, but everyone extends ideas and comes up with suggestions.

The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.

An experiment disproving a prediction is discovery.

Finn never looks more excited - he just gets faster. Finns are generally slow-moving creatures.

It's my nature to go around in high spirits most of the time and then to collapse.

I'm a Lakers fan. Kevin Garnett is my favorite player of all time because of his passion for the game.

That's where I'd like to be: when the business says here's a good actor who is marketable so we can use him. Just that.