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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…
• A kind of synthesis, but with some elements that perhaps you wouldn't have expected in advance. I always like that when that…
• Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining…
• Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier…
• I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo, came out of having discovered what lay behind the doors that…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• In a certain sense, aspects of my solo playing were developed in order to test the theory about how long particular elements…
• Of course when people are as talented as Jim O'Rourke or Gene Coleman, pretty soon you know that they're going to be…

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