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

Improvisation is a compositional method.

I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments.

My roots are in my record player.

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

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.

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!

We all listened to a lot of recorded music, especially American jazz, modern jazz, and that's where our studies were and our inspiration came from.

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

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.

When you add a period of 25 years between the playing and the listening, then the whole question of meaning gets very complicated.

Beauty may be only skin deep but the judgments founded on it ten to go a lot deeper, whether we wished they would or not.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose-a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

We're in a place where no words can tell the truth about what happened... But they have to. This was hell on earth.

Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.

I work really well under pressure but I really hate doing things on a timeframe.

Human destiny is an episode between two oblivions.

The bicameral mind with its controlling gods was evolved as a final stage of the evolution of language. And in this development lies the origin of civilization.

Golf is a game of misses, and the winners are those who have the best misses

Processed foods cause inflammation, a source of most chronic illnesses as well as stress.

I had to listen to the classical music because it calms me down, calms my nerves down.