We made records to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records. I still feel that way. I put out a record because I think it's beautiful, not necessarily commercial.

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

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.

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

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

Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that was it. We were more dedicated. We didn't have a choice.

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.

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

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

The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body.

We made records to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records. I still feel that way. I put out a record because I think it's beautiful, not necessarily commercial.

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

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

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

Politics ruins the character.

I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad. You exist in a bubble. There comes a point where you suddenly feel not really a part of the world, you're just passing through.

Literally, there is a lot of talk about sparks in the Kabbalah. It talks about when God created the world initially, there was an explosion that happened like a Big Bang but based on vessels and light.

A lot of the earliest 'Instagram' celebrities took really beautiful photos. But you're starting to see a change where it's not about beauty; it's about the story that you tell.

A Cherubim or leader of a kingdom of angels is the fountain or heart of his whole kingdom, and is made out of all the powers out of which his angels are made, and is the most powerful and the brightest of them all.

The black masses must demand and refuse to accept nothing less than that proportionate percentage of the political spoils such as jobs, elective offices and appointments... They must reject the shameful racial tokenism that characterizes the political life of America today.

The first year was hard for me to deal with. The second year was a little bit easier, but still difficult. It took me five years to get it out of me. It was a difficult moment, a difficult time.

I don't like acting; not in front of the camera.

I spend long days wearing a corset - but no pain, no gain.

I don't date guys that I just meet randomly. I don't feel comfortable meeting strangers.

The credibility of the teller is the ultimate test of the truth of a proposition.

It may be that other developers are finding that their games play better on one platform over the other, so they're choosing to migrate to that platform.

The best part of making music, for me, is collaborating and working with new people and fresh sounds and all those things that gets people excited to continue in this business that we all love so much.

When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.

At the political level, most Jews and most Catholics have accepted the liberal idea of religious freedom.

God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the Earth.

I feel like I introduce another level of my creative ability on every album.

Your ability to use mind whatever way you choose is outrageous. Much will depend upon how intensely you approach the study and the state of mind in which you begin.

I made a decision to live outside the city in northern California. My agent said to me, 'Kid, you're going to make a mint in television movies.' He positioned me, and we picked really good projects, and I cornered that market. They were 20-day projects.

Strong feelings are fine; it's the overreactions that mess us up.

Putting out a debut album is a bit scary - I want it to be just right, so I took some extra time to finish it. Eminem's increased involvement has been such a blessing; I'm getting guidance from an artist I really admire and trust.

You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past.

Whoever they want me to fight, I'm going to fight. So I really don't care.

Remember that the more you know, the less you fear.