You can separate the men from the boys and ballads.

Music should always be an adventure.

"If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying."

I don't think about music as being new or modern. I just play.

I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else

Some of my biggest moments have been in jam sessions, but I don't want to talk about them. There were always other people involved.

If you don't make mistakes you are not really trying.

There's no such thing as bop music, but there's such a thing as progress.

Some people say there was no jazz tenor before me. All I know is I just had a way of playing and I didn't think in terms of any other instrument but the tenor

I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I play

He realized that, despite the dangers and alarms of the day, waiting was perhaps the worst thing of all.

Play every shot so that the next one will be the easiest that you can give yourself.

The sun shines everywhere, not just at the beach.

You can be a mother and still be completely sexy.

[Lockyer]... sometimes forgets he is only the editor and not the author of Nature. [Lockyer was the first editor of Nature.]

Am I really a person who lives by faith? God can surely tell the difference between someone who walks in darkness and someone who walks with her eyes shut. Which am I?

The ways of the mind are ancient, but you are timeless

The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it continues until it destroys.

Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well as talking.