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.

We're taking up some science experiments, some crystal growth things, we have a refrigerator that carries up some samples, new samples that go into the station, we bring the old ones home; we have a lot of clothing, we have a lot of food-U.S. and Russian food.

I felt so out of place at the Miss India pageant. I had just come back from America, and I was told I needed to lose my American accent and learn the Queen's English, so I had to enunciate my vowels and speak well and eloquently. Giving up a New York accent is pretty hard.

Music is a reservoir... of sounds.

It's not all silliness, as interactive SXSW is filled with aggressive learning, discussing, and a whole lot of futurizing.

When I walk out on stage, I don't know who's in the audience. To me, in my little fat skull, the laugh is just the widest demographic you can get.

I love diamond facials - they leave me glowing and refreshed.

I collected child support in Dade County, and they wrote a rap song about me, so the kids knew about it, and they started asking me questions about child support. What happens if she wastes the money? What happens if he doesn't pay? And I answered the questions.

Self awareness is a key to self mastery.

Do your homework and know your business better than anyone. Otherwise someone who knows more and works harder will kick your ass.

Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.

My first job was as a waitress, and I waitressed for a long, long time. I was a very bad waitress. I didn't care if people had ketchup or if they were allergic to fish. It really didn't bother me either way. I didn't care. I was bad, but it was a good way to make money. And it's a fun job if you are working with fun people.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.

It's much more fun to play something you're nothing like than what you are... It's much easier to hide yourself in a character.

Fashion is a good job for a young girl. I like clothes - I like to play with clothes. I like DIY; I like to make outfit.

I would say seeing the original Yardbirds with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page at the old Fillmore was a pretty powerful influence on me.

Remember that there is only one important time and it is Now. The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion.

My mother-in-law fell down a wishing well. I was amazed; I never knew they worked.

What's the point? My face, shall we say, looks lived in.

He alone sees truly who sees the Lord the same in every creatureseeing the same Lord everywhere he does not harm himself or others.

It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings.

No amount of humanitarian assistance can protect people from being attacked.

If you watch the evening news, Dr. Kissinger is very often brought on to sort of be the statesman of his age and to reflect dispassionately on world events. And so a film challenging his legacy, a film that assesses charges that are quite grave against him, is something that is touchy for the media to show.

I think, actually, any morality system that rewards only the extremes is a flawed system. Players don't approach life that way, they don't approach games that way, and they shouldn't be trained to approach games that way. They shouldn't be in the 'Star Wars' mode where, 'I've got to choose every good option.'