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

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.

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.

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

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.

To become an astronaut, someone has to have a dream of his own to do something that he or she has always wanted to do, then commit himself to making that dream come true.

I've used the laws of the country to my advantage.

But camels, though odious to view and endowed with the offensive spirit, did not enjoy the blessing of pachydermaty.

God expects you not simply to face the future; He expects you to embrace and shape the future--to love it and rejoice in it and delight in your opportunities.

I often say that ... I'm just involved in comedy, so I can be around it.

Success isn't what you've done compared to others. Success is what you've done compared to what you were made to do.

The eloquent voice of our century uttered, shortly before leaving the world, a warning cry against the "Anglo- Saxon contagion.

Integrity: A name is the blueprint of the thing we call character. You ask, What's in a name? I answer, Just about everything you do.

Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.

The mind is a product of experience. It is the result of past thinking and is modified by present thinking.