Don't buy upgrades, ride up grades.
Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways.
Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo.
If you listen to Louis Armstrong from 1929, you will never hear anything better than that really, and you will never hear anything more free than that.
In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds.
It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing.
I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.
I'd like to be a 5-10, 205-pound running back. I think it's natural for big guys to want to be a little faster.
Sit as little as possible. Give no credence to any thought that was not born outdoors while moving about freely.
It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely.
Ideally, you would live in an area that is not necessarily in the middle of the country, out in the woods, because you can isolate yourself there and get stuck in your own thoughts.