We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that.

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

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

I've been informed by both sides, jazz, western music, Asian music, African music, all sides, because I've been interested in the sound of the universe, and that sound is without limit.

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.

I've been fortunate in that I've been forced to move from zone to zone.

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