I've decided that it's possible to love someone for entirely selfless reasons, for all of their flaws and weaknesses, and still not succeed in having them love you back.
I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.
Undeniably, the audience for improvisation, good or bad, active or passive, sympathetic or hostile, has a power that no other audience has. It can affect the creation of that which is being witnessed. And perhaps because of that possibility the audience for improvisation has a degree of intimacy with the music that is not achieved in any other situation.
If you could only play a record once, imagine the intensity you’d have to bring into the listening.
Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.
I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing.
Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.
You meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city. . . you go down new streets, you see houses you never saw before, pass places you didn't even know were there. Everything changes.
A person comes into the world with a fist-and a grasp. Yes, we are built to fight one another, but also to embrace. How cleverly we are created.
An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? No, said the priest, not if you did not know. Then why, asked the Inuit earnestly, did you tell me?
He said he didn't very well understand how George was going to sleep any more than he did now, seeing that there were only twenty-four hours in each day.