Risk Is At The Heart Of Jazz.

You Must Have The Music To Justify An Instrument's Extensive Use.

Before The Work Comes To You, You Have To Invent Work.

When I Came Up, It Was All About Originality And Collective Research. There Is An Awful Lot Of Imitation Going On Now.

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.

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.