Evan Parker

A kind of synthesis, but with some elements that perhaps you wouldn't have expected in advance. I always like that when that happens, when something comes that is more than the sum of the parts. ↗

— Evan Parker

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

— Evan Parker

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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. ↗

— Evan Parker

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

— Evan Parker

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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. ↗

— Evan Parker

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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. ↗

— Evan Parker

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Improvisation is a compositional method. ↗

— Evan Parker

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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. ↗

— Evan Parker

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It's not like, I don't know, if Madonna has a new record out, then everybody from Bangkok to Birmingham knows what its called and can buy it the same week. But our stuff is not in that mass market. ↗

— Evan Parker

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

— Evan Parker

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