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

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.

Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.

Why should I trade one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away?

Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.

Say Goodnight Gracie.

Democracy is not a form of government. It is a political philosophy that can be embodied in various systems of government.

When we open ourselves to exploring our creativity, we open ourselves to God: good, orderly direction.

By not coming forward, you make yourself a victim forever.

A good stance and posture reflect a proper state of mind.

You could almost describe psychedelics as enzymes for the activity of the imagination.

The fear in my heart was like in one of those dreams where you try to run but you can't do it, you can't run because the fear is an anchor in your chest.