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Evan Parker Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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



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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!



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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.



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



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



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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.



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When you add a period of 25 years between the playing and the listening, then the whole question of meaning gets very complicated.





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