When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins

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.

What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.

Every one at some point felt discouraged, it was our faithful companions, who lifted our spirit to find hope again.

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it was on your side and not theirs.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile

At the beginning it wasn't to do with the work, it was more the experience.

I tell you, the economy is in bad shape. In fact, the economy is so bad, President Barack Obama's new slogan is 'Spare Change You Can Believe In.'

Why? is the boy's motto, why does, why is, why not? Food, weather, time, fires, sea and season, clothes and cars and people; it's all grist to the mill of why.

A silenced Haiti has once again found its literary voice.

The Crafts which require the most Time intraining or most Ingenuityand Industry must necessarily be the best paid.