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" Before the work comes to you, you have to invent work. "

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" If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you can play it. It's called do or die. "

" Saxophone is one thing, and music is another. "

" Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn't know that at first. "

" I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone. "

" To me, there is spirit in a reed. It's a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spirit of a sort. It's really an ancient vibration. "

" Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways. "

" The more original something is, the more of a threat it seems until the people catch up with it. That happened with Thelonious Monk. It happened with anybody who is really original. "

" Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant. "

" I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever. "

" When I heard Monk in person in 1955, he was playing with a quartet in a small club. The place was full of musicians, but there was no public at all. "

" Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it. "

" It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up. "

" Register is very important. Music sounds best in a certain register. "

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

" Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo. "

" Jazz is people's music, a collectivity. "

" Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same. "

" I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio. "

" The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music. "

" Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk. "

" If you listen to Louis Armstrong from 1929, you will never hear anything better than that really, and you will never hear anything more free than that. "

" It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing. "

" Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention. "

" If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up. "

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

" When I found the music of Monk I finally found music that fit that horn. Every one of his tunes fit it perfectly. "

" They call me before they go into production, when they have a prototype, and they call legitimate saxophonists, too. As opposed to the other kind. "

" I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed. "

" I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down. "

" The soprano turned out to sound to me like the right hand on the piano. "