If You Listen To Louis

It's Very Important To Go Through Periods Where You Sound Just Rotten And You Know It, And You Have To Persevere Or Give Up.

The Saxophone Is A Very Interesting Machine, But I'm More Interested In Music.

To Me, There Is Spirit In A Reed. It's A Living Thing, A Weed, Really, And It Does Contain Spirit Of A Sort. It's Really An Ancient Vibration.

There Is An Awful Lot Of What I Call Recreational Jazz Going On, Where People Go Out And Learn A Particular Language Or Style And Become Real Sharks On Somebody Else's Language.

What I Learned With Cecil Taylor Was Strategy And Survival And How To Resist Temptations And Resist Getting Discouraged.