Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience..

I'm not sure I ever pleased Ian [Buchanan] with my progress, but he continued to tolerate me. I had to work at everything that I did. Well, it wasn't….

He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them..

I can only be me. I do what I do, I'm not a jazz player. ... I don't play jazz standards, at least not in any recognizable way. It's not my turf but ….

We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead..

Movies were much better in the days when I was doing them..

I react emotionally to everything!.

We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find..

I'd like to have a go at directing..

I'm not tortured and neurasthenic - I'm really not..

Just because a guitar is old doesn't make it good... I've seen guitars that were old but weren't as good as the reissue ... for me, it's not the age ….

In your 20s, you learn. In your 30s, you earn..

Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives..

Studying the behavior of large whales has been likened to astronomy. The observer glimpses his subjects, often at long range; he cannot do experiment….

The saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception. All you can do is play melody. No matter how complicated it gets, it'….

It’s like a language. You learn the alphabet, which are the scales. You learn sentences, which are the chords. And then you talk extemporaneously wit….

I cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won't come out..

Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz..

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

The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul..

I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life..