You don't have to live the blues to play the blues..

My ego is controlled enough that I don't have to be the focus..

The reality is that what you find out is that your head is the medicine. If your head is not in the right place and you don't think positively, all t….

Music allows the great opportunity to play with people you love..

Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing..

If you're in jazz and more than ten people like you, you're labeled commercial..

To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G..

As much as I think John Coltrane belongs on the list, I think without Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young, both of whom defined improvising on the tenor….

I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years..

Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice..

One of the advantages of not having a record contract is that you can make your own mistakes, you don't need somebody else to organize them for you..

I had sat in one day in Central Park with Bonnie and Delaney, and Duane was playing with them, so I asked if he wanted to work on an album. You never….

If you want to play somebody's music, you'd better go into his house..

You have to be concerned with yourself because if you're not on it all the time, nobody else is going to be..

My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania..

Why do you have to retire at 65? Why can't you start at 70? You know, like wine. Why can't music be that way? My new band, we're playing stuff that's….

For me Brazilian music is the perfect mix of melody and rhythm. It just bubbles rhythmically. If I had to pick just one music style to play if would ….

Think about it: Look at the strides of awareness and treatment and tests that women have had with breast cancer, that the gay community has had with ….

Let's say you have some chicken stock and you're making soup, and out of everything you can taste, some of the things you put in and some of the thin….

If you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from..

My youngest son, who is now the drummer in my band, lives in Brooklyn. My oldest son is about to move out to California, and my daughters are both ou….