Evan Parker Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.”

“To speak about notation as the only way that you can guarantee structure of course is already very suspect.”

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

“It's not like, I don't know, if Madonna has a new record out, then everybody from Bangkok to Birmingham knows what its called and can buy it the same week. But our stuff is not in that mass market.”

“I think it's a great document of John Stevens' originality. At that time he was already much more fully formed in his conception than I was. I was sort of struggling to keep up, and sometimes it's pretty obvious.”

“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.”

“I think the whole question of meaning in music is difficult enough even if you hear me playing live right now in the same room! What I mean and what you take from it may be two quite different things anyway.”

“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.”

“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.”

“So in the sense that we were all dealing with that freer approach, yes, it was certainly one of the first contacts, perhaps the first contact, when Peter came that summer. So it's a very pivotal moment that is documented there.”