Evan Parker Quotes

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• I think the whole question of meaning in music is difficult enough even if you hear me playing live right now in the same room!…
• A kind of synthesis, but with some elements that perhaps you wouldn't have expected in advance. I always like that when that happens, when something…
• Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force,…
• Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free…
• I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo, came out of having discovered what lay behind the doors that that technique opened…
• I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments.
• I'd met Roscoe in Europe quite a few times over the years, and we'd say hi and so on, but this was the first time…
• 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 come away, I…
• If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances.
• I've never been one that thinks that the function of an instrument is to approach the purity of voice or the structure of a beautifully…
• In a certain sense, aspects of my solo playing were developed in order to test the theory about how long particular elements could be, as…
• Of course when people are as talented as Jim O'Rourke or Gene Coleman, pretty soon you know that they're going to be part of the…
• 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 them…
• So in the sense that we were all dealing with that freer approach, yes, it was certainly one of the first contacts, perhaps the first…
• 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 those…
• The argument we always used to use was that keeping records in the catalog was good for people that were coming new to the music,…
• There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.
• Those early steps are very important in understanding the evolution. But in themselves, maybe now you need the later records to understand the significance of…
• There's an institution here called the National Sound Archive, and there's a character who works there, Paul Wilson. He takes a very special interest in…
• To speak about notation as the only way that you can guarantee structure of course is already very suspect.

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