You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.

If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice.

A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.

You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.

The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body.

Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz.

There are four qualities essential to a great jazzman. they are taste, courage, individuality, and irreverence.

The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul.

I cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won't come out.

I practiced saxophone eight hours a day for the first two years I played.

You know, when I'm playing, I think of myself in front of the Wailing Wall with a saxophone in my hands, and I'm davening, I'm really telling it to the Wall.

Literature is a microscope

What we call as burden of life is nothing but the human failure on the matter of creating a just world!

Wisdom of the Ages: Another Bush in the White House-Yep they keep forgetting to grab the TV and silverware.

Without "the people, " there is no country.

Minutes are worth more than money. Spend them wisely.

Betrayal answers betrayal, the mask of love is answered by the disappearance of love.

Should have. Would have. Could have. Didn't.

One can beg, buy, be presented with and find love in the streets, but it can never be stolen.

With begging and scrambling we find very little, but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.

I wasn't a wrestling fan growing up; I knew who Hulk Hogan was and stuff but I didn't watch it. I started watching wrestling about three years before I got involved with WCW.