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

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" I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination. "

" When I first started playing music in 1955, there was just a small body of people that knew it. It was a very esoteric type of thing. "

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

" I was spoiled by Monk's music because it was so good, so complete. "

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

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

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" 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. "

" The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity. "

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

" I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music. "

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

" People don't want to suffer. They want to sound good immediately, and this is one of the biggest problems in the world. "

" We played for peanuts. But we did what we wanted to do, we heard what we wanted to hear, we performed what we wanted to perform, we learned what we wanted to learn. "

" When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now. "

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

" I've always been extremely lucky in playing with great people who knew much more than I did. That's how I got from there to here. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else's language. "

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

" 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. "