Quotes by Evan Parker

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. (Evan Parker)

Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force, which was a pretty standard way for people to get some kind of musical education in those days. (Evan Parker)

Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language. (Evan Parker)

I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo, came out of having discovered what lay behind the doors that that technique opened for me. (Evan Parker)

I think the whole question of meaning in music is difficult enough even if you hear me playing live right now in the same room! What I mean and what you take from it may be two quite different things anyway. (Evan Parker)

Id met Roscoe in Europe quite a few times over the years, and wed say hi and so on, but this was the first time wed actually played together. (Evan Parker)

Improvisation is a compositional method. (Evan Parker)

Ive been to the studio several times, and its not that I'm not happy with what I've got, but each time I come away, I feel that I've learned something that I want to work on. (Evan Parker)

So I'm looking to the saxophone as a resource which has its own unique set of possibilities. I'm looking to exploit them and develop them and have the fullest range of possibilities of the saxophone be known. (Evan Parker)

So in the sense that we were all dealing with that freer approach, yes, it was certainly one of the first contacts, perhaps the first contact, when Peter came that summer. So it's a very pivotal moment that is documented there. (Evan Parker)