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There's no such thing as bop music, but there's such a thing as progress.

Some of my biggest moments have been in jam sessions, but I don't want to talk about them. There were always other people involved.

If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying.

You can separate the men from the boys and ballads.

I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else.

I don't think about music as being new or modern. I just play.

Music should always be an adventure.

I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I play.

If you don't make mistakes you are not really trying.