When I first heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise. Something that people could understand, something that was beautiful.

Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.

Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.

You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.

Don't be afraid, just play the music.

Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born.

I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker would have never played anything but swing music.

If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.

I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

At the bottom of freshly dug holes, I bury my problems alongside the waxen seeds.

I walked the streets and tasted the golden sun that lay across the city.

Marriage, at this point in my life? I'm not interested in it. Yet. Maybe later when I'm 35 or 40.

Half the truth is often a great lie.

Administrators are like pigs; don't wrestle with a pig because you both get dirty and the pig likes it.

Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

What are we doing to keep the light shining in our own eyes and countenances; Much of that light comes from our discipline dedication and consecration.

A bore is a person who lights up the room simply by leaving it.

Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .

I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade.