To do anything artistically you have to acquire technique, but create through your technique and not with it.

When we are totally faithful to our own individuality, we are actually following a very intricate design. This kind of freedom is the opposite of "just anything".

To create, we need both technique and freedom of technique

As an improvising musician, I am not in the music business, I am not in the creativity business; I am in the surrender business.

We provide both irritation and inspiration for each other- the grist for each other's pearl making.

If we operate with a belief in long sweeps of time, we build cathedrals; if we operate from fiscal quarter to fiscal quarter, we build ugly shopping malls.

I no longer sought skill, flexibility, strength, endurance, muscle tone, and quick responsiveness as means of imposing my will on the instrument, but rather of keeping an open and unrestricted pathway for the creative impulse to play its music straight from the preconscious depths beneath and beyond me.