Evan Parker Quotes & Sayings
21 most famous Evan Parker quotes and sayings (musician). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“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.”
“There's an institution here called the National Sound Archive, and there's a character who works there, Paul Wilson. He takes a very special interest in the history of the music and advised Martin Davidson of the existence of these tapes.”
“So I'm looking to the saxophone as a resource which has its own unique set of possibilities. I'm looking to exploit them and develop them and have the fullest range of possibilities of the saxophone be known.”
“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!”
“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.”
“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.”
“But I think the record will actually come from tapes that are not yet recorded.”
“I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments.”
“If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances.”
“Improvisation is a compositional method.”
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