I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.

I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing.

I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing. I don't think it works in other music, other kinds of playing.

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.

In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.

I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics.

Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone - beginners, children, and non-musicians.

Solo concerts are murder, I find; I don't like doing them.

In fact its quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of working now being quite so profligate in their use of it.

Diversity is its most consistent characteristic....The characteristics of freely improvised music are established only by the sonic-musical identity of the person or persons playing it.

People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.

Our squalid society rushed, Narcissus to a man, to gaze on its trivial image on a scrap of metal.

Today right here in America we have 50 million people without health insurance.

Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

As a director, you just have to kind of like just get through the first project before starting on the next one.

The University of Miami is not a campus with visible school spirit, just visible tan lines.

We must fear God out of love, not love Him out of fear.

Not a man to mince words. People, yes. But not words.

Love is the salutation of the angel to the stars