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

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


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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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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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