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

I played in rhumba bands, mickey mouse bands; all kinds of bands.

I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.

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

My dark sound could be heard across a room clearer than somebody with a reedy sound. It had more projection. My sound always seemed to fill a room.

As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.

I appreciate men like Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins very much.

I had a 10-year heroin habit and kicked that. Then I became an alcoholic. I drank two fifth's a day.

Hearing myself so much all the time, I don't think I sound that special all the time because it's me.

Records used to be documents, but now record companies want product.

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

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

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

We recorded to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records.

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

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

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

I've done some dastardly things but what can I do except make amends and apologize?

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

I never have any trouble playing anything I can think of. The trouble is in thinking of what to play.