I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me.

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.

Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.

A problem cannot be solved at the level of consciousness in which it occurs.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats.

In diplomacy, like in great many other things, the rules of engagement survive only until one remarkable person decides to break them.

I've never minded being disciplined. I'd always rather have a quiet evening in than go to a wild party. Discipline for me has always been the foundation which leaves me free to fly.

Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.

Some wounds grow worse beneath the surgeon's hand; Better that they were not touched at all.

The mind is the world and the no-mind is freedom from the world. The mind is misery and no-mind is the end of misery and the beginning of ecstasy.

When the president decides something on Monday, he still believes it on Wednesday - no matter what happened Tuesday.