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

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'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.

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.

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

My roots are in my record player.

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.