You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others.

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.

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.

In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds.

You cannot write unless you write much.

God is closer to you than you think.

There are so many random questions in life, but the important ones harldy have a random answer.

When you are born into bondage you can't see the prison.

Its easy to fall for someone that will find humor in every situation.

Whatever everyone else has asked you to do or never let you do, and let's do that.

At its best, fiction is not a diversion but a means of knowing the world.

This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty... what you will.

Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.

Ditch the dream and be a doer.