I realized that improvisers should probably always have time off. But musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute - unless something drastic occurs.

If music is sound & came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound.

When you're up against an electric band like that, it's like you're on two separate planets.

You know, when people look at a tree, they look at the leaves; they don't look at the spaces between the leaves. They're focused on the tree. I think there's an awareness of spaces or it wouldn't look like a tree to them.

If sound is music and came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound. If the sound is effective, it should actually have a chemical - some sort of physiological - effect on the listener, so he doesn't have to hear that sound again.

Ideally, I'd like to be the eternal novice, for then only the surprises would be endless.

Once we're inside a tune, we can do anything with it.