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" Creating sounds together with other musicians is something I've always liked doing. "
Doing
Together
Musicians
" I always try to think of a vocabulary to match different musical situations. "
Always
Match
Think
" I don't like to box myself in when I'm composing. "
Myself
Like
Composing
" I feel I'm most successful when I'm playing a concert, and it doesn't necessarily seem like I'm playing a saxophone but am coming off more like an orchestra or something like that. "
Orchestra
Concert
Feel
" I feel that in order to learn as much about music as I would like to learn, I would need more than one lifetime. "
Need
More
Music
" I felt that I had been influenced by being in the city enough and I wanted to go off by myself to see what was going on. I remember going out there and looking in the mirror and thinking I wasn't anything. "
Looking
City
Mirror
" If you listen to nature, all the sounds are done in a confident way. I'm trying to do that. "
Confident
Done
Nature
" If you're playing with a number of people, there are all sorts of textures, all kinds of possibilities you can get into. So why just play a theme together and then take solos? "
People
Possibilities
You
" I just consider myself a student, trying to learn more about it. "
More
Trying
Student
" I like to explore sounds. "
Sounds
Like
Explore
" I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance. "
Like
Hear
Go
" I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing. "
My Life
Music
Life
" I'm into something that definitely does require your attention, and with that, you're not going to run out of things to do. You're never going to be the master of music. "
You
Run
Attention
" I'm the kind of guy that if I go to a concert and hear something that knocks me out, I don't want to be left out of that. I'm going to try to get into that, and I'm running back home to practice. "
Back
Home
Kind
" I'm trying to learn to really use space. My philosophy is that every time you interrupt space in a very confident, secure manner, then music happens. "
Time
You
Trying
" I noticed that when it came time to improvise, my students would often make mistakes. "
Time
Improvise
Mistakes
" I remember times when the whole music scene was just flourishing. "
Remember
I Remember
Just
" I say if you can find somebody you can make music with, that's a special thing, so you should try to keep it going. "
Try
Find
Music
" I think the best thing you can teach a person is how to learn. And once they discover their own individual approach to that - which is inside all of us - then all of a sudden, they've opened up a door of endless resources. "
Learn
You
Think
" It wasn't until I got out of the Army and I heard Coltrane's record 'Coltrane,' when he was doing 'Inch Worm' and 'Out of This World,' that I thought, 'Oh my God, you can do that?' And then I thought, 'OK, I better go back and listen to Eric Dolphy a bit.' And then I said, 'Hmm, I better pull out these Ornette Coleman records.' "
Doing
Thought
World
" I've always been interested in shaping music in odd ways, with odd riffs and that's been probably something that I've continued on with my studies with improvisation as I'm working with people. "
Odd
People
Always
" Life is short, and, once somebody is gone, they're gone. "
Once
Gone
Short
" Man, I used to go around and think, 'Oh my God, what must it be like to be going down the street, and someone asks you, 'What's your name?' and the reply would be, 'John Coltrane.' I couldn't imagine what that would be like. "
You
Name
Man
" Music has a way of getting under your skin. "
Way
Your
Getting
" My central quest was to have a piece played on the saxophone sound like more than one instrument, exploiting different registers and wide interval leaps. "
More
Sound
Saxophone
" This is what really makes real jazz musicians: people coming out with their own voice. "
Voice
Jazz
Musicians
" To be a good improviser, you have to study composition as a parallel. Because what improvisation is, on a high level, is spontaneous composition. "
Spontaneous
You
Study
" What I'm after is a composed music that will sound like improvised music when improvisors play it. You shouldn't be able to tell what parts are being improvised and what parts were written out beforehand; it should sound like the same music. "
Tell
Will
You
" What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music. "
Try
Practice
Music
" When you can make a good, strong musical connection with people, that's always there. That's not often that that happens. "
You
Strong
People
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