“His musical inspiration operates in a world uncluttered by conventional bar lines, conventional chord changes, and conventional ways of blowing or fingering a saxophone. Such practical 'limitations' did not even have to be overcome in his music; they somehow never existed for him. Despite this - or more accurately, because of this - his playing has a deep inner logic. Not an obvious surface logic, it is based on subtleties of reaction, subtleties of timing and color that are, I think, quite new to jazz - at least they have never appeared in so pure and direct a form.” ThinkingWorldWayInspirationFormLinesColorPureDirectLogicOvercomingJazzMusicalObviousSurfacePracticalsBarsReactionsDespiteLimitationConventionalTimingChordsSubtletySaxophoneConventional Ways Author:Gunther Schuller
“I don't think you can become an outstanding runner unless you get a certain amount of enjoyment out of the suffering. You have to enjoy absorbing it, controlling it, and - ultimately - overcoming it.” ThinkingCertainSufferingEnjoyAmountOvercomingEnjoymentRunnersOutstandingAbsorbing Author:Derek Clayton