Improvisation is a compositional method.

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But I think the record will actually come from tapes that are not yet recorded.

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

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

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

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

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If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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