"I've never been one that thinks that the……" — 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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29 Quotes by Evan Parker
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I think the whole question of meaning in music is difficult enough even if you hear me playing live right…
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A kind of synthesis, but with some elements that perhaps you wouldn't have expected in advance. I always like that…
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Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training…
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Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I…
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I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo, came out of having discovered what lay behind the…
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I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments.
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I'd met Roscoe in Europe quite a few times over the years, and we'd say hi and so on, but…
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I've been to the studio several times, and it's not that I'm not happy with what I've got, but each…
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If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by…
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In a certain sense, aspects of my solo playing were developed in order to test the theory about how long…
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Of course when people are as talented as Jim O'Rourke or Gene Coleman, pretty soon you know that they're going…
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So I'm looking to the saxophone as a resource which has its own unique set of possibilities. I'm looking to…
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