After playing now for 60 years, it's still very challenging for me to play a simple melody and have it clean and touch the reed at the proper time in the proper way.

I have been able to get a small audience. It's not the huge audience, but it's enough to make it possible to play. I appreciate that.

I love Indian music very much, but I haven't studied that specifically.

Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.

After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a nice catchy melody and an opportunity to play a solo over a harmonic structure.

I always felt as a horn player, a jam session wasn't satisfying enough for me. I should have been a rhythm section player, actually.