If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances.

- Evan Parker

In my mind these two instruments speak to me in different ways, and the solo stuff seems to be easier to do on the soprano.

- Evan Parker

In a certain sense, aspects of my solo playing were developed in order to test the theory about how long particular elements could be, as parts of so…

- 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 Ai…

- Evan Parker

You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses.

- Evan Parker

When you add a period of 25 years between the playing and the listening, then the whole question of meaning gets very complicated.

- Evan Parker

I've never been one that thinks that the function of an instrument is to approach the purity of voice or the structure of a beautifully sung line.

- Evan Parker

There's an institution here called the National Sound Archive, and there's a character who works there, Paul Wilson. He takes a very special interest…

- 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 P…

- Evan Parker