Approach Quote by Evan Parker

“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 sung line.”

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

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

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

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Improvisation is a compositional method.

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

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

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