To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
But that methodology where players are pitted against other unfamiliar players has been so widely adapted now that anybody plays with everybody.
Undeniably, the audience for improvisation, good or bad, active or passive, sympathetic or hostile, has a power that no other audience has. It can affect the creation of that which is being witnessed. And perhaps because of that possibility the audience for improvisation has a degree of intimacy with the music that is not achieved in any other situation.
If you could only play a record once, imagine the intensity you’d have to bring into the listening.
Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.
I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing.
Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.
The great thing about the United States is our ability to absorb foreign people and make them a part of us.
It seems to me that my mother was the most splendid woman I ever knew. . . I have met a lot of people knocking around the world since, but I have never met a more thoroughly refined woman than my mother. If I have amounted to anything, it will be due to her.
Humans - whatever billions we are - we don't have the control. We are considered expendable, basically.
The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term