My roots are in my record player.

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.

Remarkable only the very best arrangers can get a sound like that from four horns

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

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

Of course I knew the work of Roland Kirk and Harry Carney and the specific uses they would make of circular breathing, so I knew it was physically possible.

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.