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

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.

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.

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

Dye your hair, certainly. But what can you do for your face?

By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember.

Time flies when you’re being stupid.

I was a man fifteen years older than she, you understand. I had reached that stage in life where I identified with cynical villains in a book.

I am shamelessly biased about the people in my life, and it makes sense to me that other people are the same.

I play the piano and write music.

I've been way too blessed. Had too much fun, too many rewards.

Writing is not "the establishment of a professional reputation" as if one were a doctor or lawyer; it is not properly in the sentence with creation of a family and the purchase of a home.

Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for we all think we possess a good share of it.

A country does not go bankrupt.