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" You have to sound sad first of all, then maybe later you can sound good. "

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

" I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" The potential for the saxophone is unlimited. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Circumstances can be very important. Find the right people to work with. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged. "

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

" 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. "