Lotta people don't realize when you grow up with people, you have an affinity, a relationship you don't get with anyone else. After you're twenty years old, anyone you meet after that, it's different from the people you knew before.

Well, dojo is a traditional Japanese word for training hall.

It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble.

In 1993, I retired from the Art Ensemble of Chicago to devote myself full time to Buddhist studies and to the practice of Aikido.

Lotta people don't realize when you grow up with people, you have an affinity, a relationship you don't get with anyone else. After you're twenty years old, anyone you meet after that, it's different from the people you knew before.

People doing the kind of sound research that I'm interested in still have a difficult time.

Well, actually, I don't consider myself a jazz legend or anything.