I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing.

Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone - beginners, children, and non-musicians.

Personally, I've found that the kind of thing that I like is going into somebody else's area and not playing their music but doing whatever I do in their area.

Diversity is its most consistent characteristic....The characteristics of freely improvised music are established only by the sonic-musical identity of the person or persons playing it.

But that methodology where players are pitted against other unfamiliar players has been so widely adapted now that anybody plays with everybody.

If you could only play a record once, imagine the intensity you’d have to bring into the listening.

Even if it is difficult playing with other people - sometimes it's great, sometimes it isn't, but that is kind of the point of it. It loses its point playing solo.