I know what's good for me. I can't play black or gray. I can't be a villain or anything close to one. I have to play white.
I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone.
If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you can play it. It's called do or die.
Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.
Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.
Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same.
I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music.
In my opinion, terrorism is a question which is not a short- term problem for all of us. It is a long-term fight. And NATO can play, and will play, a very crucial role in this struggle.
To me, getting notes, honing the part, and refining the role is the real fun of the play.
Up until doing this movie, I hadn't really paid a huge amount of attention to those genres, but after finishing this movie, it really gave me a different sense of appreciation of the way the movies play out.
A movie of mine is going to be released in Japan next year. I play a waitress who's a really regular girl in this movie. The English title isn't decided yet, but in Japanese it's I'll Get on the A Train Sometime.
A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play.
When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football.
That's another thing, we made up games. We didn't have equipment. When it snowed, we would play slow motion tackle football. We would play hockey, but we wouldn't skate. We just made things up. I loved doing that.
Playing sport was somewhat frivolous, but I liked it. I rebelled a little bit, and wouldn't go to music lessons and things like that, but I would go and play ball. My parents learned to love it because they saw how much I got out of it.