I’m fortunate that I’m making a living at it now because I’m not equipped to do anything else.

Jazz has an audience all around the globe and has had for many decades, I think speaking of the United States, let’s say that what we need is more of an official recognition.

I think we are in the midst of this period where we are committing this suicide on the planet and everybody is just using up all of our natural resources like a bunch of insane people. That’s what I worry about more than I worry about jazz.

I’m now a legend, whether I want to be or not.

I am interested in my music lasting only while I’m alive. I’m not writing for the future.

Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That’s what classical music is, real European music.

I’ll know when I find the ultimate sound.

I’ve played with all of the heavyweights in the modern jazz, progressive jazz movement. I’ve been fortunate enough to play with them, a who’s who. All of those guys, I’ve been fortunate enough to have performed with.

There was a period which I refer to as the ‘Golden Age of Jazz,’ which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties, we had a lot of great innovators, all creating things which will last the world for a long, long time.

But if I didn’t have to make money, I would still play my horn.