What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.

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.

Have to? Of course you have to! But only because of you, Harry, won't rest until Voldemort is finished! Think now, for once, if you have never heard of the prophecy! What would you do?

Men promise freedom while establishing laws

Pray tell, ” she said, although her voice told him not to.He ignored her tone, let out a thoughtful cloud of smoke, and said, ...

I felt my eyes widen slightly, feeling like the kid of the group who didn’t understand anything and was a pain to have around.

Your responsibility as a father and a husband transcends any other interest in life.

I will continue modeling until they don't want me anymore basically because I do love it very much.

Winning means outlasting everyone else.

The day of the great Jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.

Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.