If you could only play a record once, imagine the intensity you’d have to bring into the listening.

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.

The relationship you take for granted is the one that needs the greatest work.

Pain is an old friend who left briefly and has now returned. Starvation without sustenance, I had grown acquaint. Satiety was a stranger who invaded my deepest being, and now I cannot live without.

I went to the University of Minnesota, and I met this amazing artist named Cameron Boothe there who was in World War I, who studied with Hans Hoffman in Munich.

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.

You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.

Socially, a journalist ranks somewhere between the madam of a whorehouse and a bartender. but spiritually he ranks with Galileo, for he knows the world is round.

I just tried everything out - I mean, everything. Even my sexual orientation; I was just searching for what I really wanted. And I didn't quite know.

Look: There's good creepy and there's bad creepy. Today's creepy is tomorrow's necessity.

Canada is a sweet country. It is like your retarded cousin you see at Thanksgiving and sort of pat him on the head. You know, he's nice, but you don't take him seriously. That is Canada.

If you have form'd a circle to go into, Go into it yourself, and see how you would do. They said this mystery never shall cease: The priest promotes war, and the soldier peace.