They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art."

"Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of 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."

Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.

"Any musician who says he is playing better either on tea, the needle, or when he is juiced, is a plain straight liar . . . You can miss the most important years of your life, the years of possible creation."