The great musicians are those who can reach people, who can make people feel something.

- Sam Rivers

I have made that one of my policies never to play anything that I've already put on record.

- Sam Rivers

Well I'm a third-generation musician. My Grandfather's a musician and my father and mother were both musicians and so I'm a musician. It was just natural that I should be a musician 'cause I was born into the family.

- Sam Rivers