Solo concerts are murder, I find; I don't like doing them.

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.

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.

Diversity is its most consistent characteristic....The characteristics of freely improvised music are established only by the sonic-musical identity of the person or persons playing it.

The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.

Difference between a successful and an unsuccessful person is not the action but the vision.

I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.

It's hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I'm on stilts!

Truth is hate to those who hate the truth.

He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community.

And wealth abides not, it is but for a day.

Artists work best alone. Work alone.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on.