I didn't get where I am today by being timid, young man.

Improvisation is a compositional method.

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

My roots are in my record player.

You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses.

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 parts of so-called free improvisations.

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 the earlier records!

We all listened to a lot of recorded music, especially American jazz, modern jazz, and that's where our studies were and our inspiration came from.

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

There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.

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 for me.

Flaxfield died on a Friday which was a shame, because he always ate a trout for dinner on Friday, and it was his favourite.

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.

Vladimir Putin, from everything I see, has no respect for Hillary Clinton.

If grace is an ocean, we're all sinking.

My mum taught me always to see the funny side of things.

There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs.

Not every corporation's idyllic.

Have you seen that show on CBS called 'The Amazing Race'? Is that show about white people?