If I produce it, I will stage it as a performance. A small audience will be invited; rehearsals of the sections will be done in the mornings, and tho….

I think people who sample are cheating. It is like people who do collages. Use all of your own stuff..

I have been using delay and reverberation since the middle 1960s. I use them to make what is almost inaudible to the ear, audible. I do not use them ….

If I had money, I would like to get an old building, have music performances, do lithographs, have shows of paintings, and do those things that I'm i….

While everyone has a right to his or her opinion, the people who are informed have more of a right..

Rock musicians, and a vast array of popular-music musicians, due to their wealth, acquired through the mass of their notoriety, are able to be listen….

If you are you, 24 hours a day, then you do not have to remember who you are supposed to be in different situations - something that I imagine could ….

Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations. I have not released large orchestral works as recordings because it hasn't been ….

Fear is the biggest motivator..

I have no distributor... it is indicative to me that there are these pockets of players and collectors all over. You should see the correspondence I ….

My career has been different from most people, but I knew what I was not going to do. I knew I was not going to be controlled. I knew there was a pri….

The magic of playing has to do with how much everyone wants it to succeed. If you have five players in a situation where the music is being improvise….

Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematically and without compromise for over 40 years. I ge….

In the middle 1940s... I heard everyone live. Painting, the theater; everything was happening. It was an exciting time when New York was the place to….

Interested listeners have only to hear the recording to find out if those guys, who go to such pains to undervalue my work, are right. All people hav….

I have been going to Italy since 1980, but I always went to do work. I did not live overseas, because I do not like running around with everything I ….

Whatever I do, I attempt to do it fully. I try, and don't always succeed, to be thorough. There are musicians who do not know their worth, and if the….

I do not, as a rule, do encores. When I have finished playing, I have indeed finished playing. I have nothing left; there has been no reserve..