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.

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!

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.

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

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

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.

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.