Instruments Quotes by Evan Parker

I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo, came out of having discovered what lay behind the doors that that technique…

— Evan Parker

But I think the record will actually come from tapes that are not yet recorded.

— Evan Parker

In my mind these two instruments speak to me in different ways, and the solo stuff seems to be easier to do on the…

— Evan Parker

So I'm looking to the saxophone as a resource which has its own unique set of possibilities. I'm looking to exploit them and develop…

— Evan Parker

I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments.

— Evan Parker

If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances.

— Evan Parker

So what starts is ad hoc and you never know where it's going to lead, so it's important to keep an open mind about…

— Evan Parker

Of course I knew the work of Roland Kirk and Harry Carney and the specific uses they would make of circular breathing, so I…

— Evan Parker

Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by…

— Evan Parker

Improvisation is a compositional method.

— Evan Parker

To speak about notation as the only way that you can guarantee structure of course is already very suspect.

— Evan Parker

When you add a period of 25 years between the playing and the listening, then the whole question of meaning gets very complicated.

— Evan Parker