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 play the saxophone. Let it play you.

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

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.

Man, there's no boundary line to art!

Дойдох на Камино, защото страдах, че никой не ме обича. И днес, пред железния кръст горе, за пръв път в живота си се замислих колко болезнено трябва да е за Бог, че ние не Го обичаме.

I thought it was love, but it wasn't. It was a need to be the right girl for him. I just couldn't understand why I wasn't good enough, or how he could marry her.

A star never lets anything dull its sparkle, not even darkness.

Upon my word, you five your opinion very decidedly for so young a person.

A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law

The secret of golf is to turn three shots into two.

I came through and I shall return.

Same old eyes, same old world but the difference is how you look at what is in front of you, not what it is.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

Internet can provide the power to believe in art in new formulas, because it is the newest medium for art.