Of course I knew the work of Roland Kirk and Harry Carney and the specific uses they would make of circular breathing, so I knew it was physically possible.

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.

Though I am faced with many adversities, my heart will not faint. The Lord is my comfort, my hope and my peace.

As long as we acknowledge them, there's nothing to fear.

What is this? It's music to get a brain seizure by.

My parents are both Belgian-born, and so am I, actually.

My parents were very firm about me always getting my homework done.

Sorry is the fool who trades his soul for a corvette Thinks he'll get the girl he'll only get the mechanic.

But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation.

Teach us delight in simple things, and mirth that has no bitter springs.

Truth may be unattainable, but honesty is not.

A sense of humor is so handy, isn't it? It lets you see both sides of a question so that you never need do anything.