46 Quotes by Evan Parker

We all listened to a lot of recorded music, especially American jazz, modern jazz, and that's where our studies were and our inspiration came from.

I've never been one that thinks that the function of an instrument is to approach the purity of voice or the structure of a beautifully sung line.

Of course when people are as talented as Jim O'Rourke or Gene Coleman, pretty soon you know that they're going to be part of the bigger scene anyway.

I didn't get where I am today by being timid, young man.

When you add a period of 25 years between the playing and the listening, then the whole question of meaning gets very complicated.

The HotHouse was packed with a very enthusiastic audience, and it seemed to me that Roscoe was very inspired. It was great for me to play with him.

Of course when people are as talented as Jim O’Rourke or Gene Coleman, pretty soon you know that they’re going to be part of the bigger scene anyway.

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’d met Roscoe in Europe quite a few times over the years, and we’d say hi and so on, but this was the first time we’d actually played together.