You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use.

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.

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

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.

Real poetry is art at its purest sense. It is never a commodity, but a breath of eternity.

She had a sense of herself being brain dead: running on tubes and machines.

She almost wished she smoked, so she could lie on the car’s hood, flick a lighter, and make up names for the constellations while nicotine burned her lungs.

Death has no repeal. It is a brute ending that leaves us the legacy of an inscrutable silence. Therefore, I understand the voice of mercy very well.

Rational confidence [is] the just result of knowledge and experience.

The calculus of probabilities, when confined within just limits, ought to interest, in an equal degree, the mathematician, the experimentalist, and the statesman.

Ice-T is so old that the first thing he bought with the money from his album sales was his freedom.

For the courage of self-sacrifice, woman is any time superior to man, as I believe man is to woman for the courage of the brute.

The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.

While the world of reality has its limits, the world of your imagination is without boundaries