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

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" The argument we always used to use was that keeping records in the catalog was good for people that were coming new to the music, but I think that was talking over a ten year or fifteen year time span. "

" 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. "

" I think the whole question of meaning in music is difficult enough even if you hear me playing live right now in the same room! What I mean and what you take from it may be two quite different things anyway. "

" Improvisation is a compositional method. "

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

" 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! "

" Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force, which was a pretty standard way for people to get some kind of musical education in those days. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I think it's a great document of John Stevens' originality. At that time he was already much more fully formed in his conception than I was. I was sort of struggling to keep up, and sometimes it's pretty obvious. "

" 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. "

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

" There's an institution here called the National Sound Archive, and there's a character who works there, Paul Wilson. He takes a very special interest in the history of the music and advised Martin Davidson of the existence of these tapes. "

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

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

" So I'm looking to the saxophone as a resource which has its own unique set of possibilities. I'm looking to exploit them and develop them and have the fullest range of possibilities of the saxophone be known. "

" 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. "