So okay, I accepted, and I realized while working for that concert that I'd been missing something very important and vital to me, and that something….

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

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 univer….

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

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 yea….

It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble. But it seemed more important to me to share the vitality of ….

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

You know, face painting in non-Western cultures is a sign of collectivism, is a sign of one representing the community, it's not unique at all..

Well, actually, I don't consider myself a jazz legend or anything..

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

People call to keep me abreast of what's going on..

It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble..

The Vision Festival was packed every night, always has been for the four years it's been happening..

In fact, since no one's been interested in my work, I took the responsibility recently to invest in my own work, so I'm producing a concert that was ….

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