But that methodology where players are pitted against other unfamiliar players has been so widely adapted now that anybody plays with everybody.

I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing.

I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing. I don't think it works in other music, other kinds of playing.

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.

In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.

I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics.

Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone - beginners, children, and non-musicians.

Solo concerts are murder, I find; I don't like doing them.

I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.

In fact its quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of working now being quite so profligate in their use of it.

All decisions we’ve come to accept as right or wrong are ingrained in us from the society in which we abide. Rights and wrongs are not universally known or transferable.

The aura of uninvincibility has gone, if there is such a word.

There is a door we all want to walk through and writing can help you find it and open it.

God does not call us to be successful, but to be obedient.

Son, it ain't the water cooler that's striking you out.

The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.

It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself.

Experience isn't the best teacher - evaluated experience is.

I love the slow, warming sensation of my body going numb when I drink.

I paint bridges because they're in transition; you're coming or going, you're not anywhere - full of possibility.