“Influence people think about it as someone you like but influence is also what you're revolted by. In fact, often it's what you're running away from.” PeopleThinkingFactsRunningInfluenceEuropeRunning AwayInfluencing PeopleSomeone You Like Author:Marc Ribot
“A kind of synthesis, but with some elements that perhaps you wouldn't have expected in advance. I always like that when that happens, when something comes that is more than the sum of the parts.” KindHappensElementsExpectedSynthesis Author:Evan Parker
“Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force, which was a pretty standard way for people to get some kind of musical education in those days.” PeopleWayWellsKindForceKnownAirMusicianTrainingStandardsJazzMusicalWell KnownJazz MusicJoiningAir ForceJazz MusicianJohn PaulMusical Education Author:Evan Parker
“Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language.” PeopleThinkingKindCertainLanguageCommonAttitudeQualityEasierFlowSpeedIntensityInteractionImprovisationDensityCommon Language Author:Evan Parker
“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.” ThinkingDecisionBehindsDoorsLaysTechniqueSolo Author:Evan Parker
“I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments.” ThinkingDoeVoiceInstruments Author:Evan Parker
“I'd met Roscoe in Europe quite a few times over the years, and we'd say hi and so on, but this was the first time we'd actually played together.” YearsFirstsTogetherMetsFirst TimeEurope Author:Evan Parker
“I've been to the studio several times, and it's not that I'm not happy with what I've got, but each time I come away, I feel that I've learned something that I want to work on.” WantFeelsStudiosI've LearnedNot Happy Author:Evan Parker
“If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances.” IfsThinkingWayPerformancesLive Performance Author:Evan Parker
“I've never been one that thinks that the function of an instrument is to approach the purity of voice or the structure of a beautifully sung line.” ThinkingVoiceLinesApproachFunctionInstrumentsStructurePurity Author:Evan Parker