I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo, came out of having discovered what lay behind the doors that… — Evan Parker Behinds Copy Share Image
But I think the record will actually come from tapes that are not yet recorded. — Evan Parker Actually Copy Share Image
In my mind these two instruments speak to me in different ways, and the solo stuff seems to be easier to do… — Evan Parker Different Copy Share Image
So I'm looking to the saxophone as a resource which has its own unique set of possibilities. I'm looking to exploit them… — Evan Parker Known Copy Share Image
I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments. — Evan Parker Doe Copy Share Image
If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances. — Evan Parker Music Copy Share Image
So what starts is ad hoc and you never know where it's going to lead, so it's important to keep an open… — Evan Parker Ads Copy Share Image
Of course I knew the work of Roland Kirk and Harry Carney and the specific uses they would make of circular breathing,… — Evan Parker Breathing Copy Share Image
Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier… — Evan Parker Attitude Copy Share Image
To speak about notation as the only way that you can guarantee structure of course is already very suspect. — Evan Parker Guarantees Copy Share Image
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 Add Copy Share Image
Of course when people are as talented as Jim O'Rourke or Gene Coleman, pretty soon you know that they're going to be… — Evan Parker Bigger Copy Share Image
There's an institution here called the National Sound Archive, and there's a character who works there, Paul Wilson. He takes a very… — Evan Parker Archives Copy Share Image
The argument we always used to use was that keeping records in the catalog was good for people that were coming new… — Evan Parker Argument Copy Share Image
Remarkable only the very best arrangers can get a sound like that from four horns — Evan Parker Four Copy Share Image
It's not like, I don't know, if Madonna has a new record out, then everybody from Bangkok to Birmingham knows what its… — Evan Parker Bangkok Copy Share Image
There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore. — Evan Parker Concern Copy Share Image
I think it's a great document of John Stevens' originality. At that time he was already much more fully formed in his… — Evan Parker Conception Copy Share Image
A kind of synthesis, but with some elements that perhaps you wouldn't have expected in advance. I always like that when that… — Evan Parker Elements Copy Share Image
We all listened to a lot of recorded music, especially American jazz, modern jazz, and that's where our studies were and our… — Evan Parker Inspiration Copy Share Image
You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses. — Evan Parker Ads Copy Share Image
In a certain sense, aspects of my solo playing were developed in order to test the theory about how long particular elements… — Evan Parker Aspect Copy Share Image
I've been to the studio several times, and it's not that I'm not happy with what I've got, but each time I… — Evan Parker Feels Copy Share Image
