When I dream about music, or think about music, by myself, I try to be as free as possible and allow my creative mind full reign.

- John Dieterich

When I joined the band I was coming largely from an improvising background, and the idea of a fluid rhythm that was really coherent attracted me.

- John Dieterich

I'm pretty resigned to the fact that I never hear music the way anyone else does, and I no longer find it surprising.

- John Dieterich

I think I know what my bandmates like or are interested in or would be interested in doing. I take ideas and I develop them, get rid of some ideas, k…

- John Dieterich

That's just the way people's brains work. If you want to talk about something, you have to reduce it to a form that can be understood. That's one of …

- John Dieterich

Any material can be treated in any number of ways. Sometimes I might hear something, or someone else might hear something, and say, "Wow, that sounds…

- John Dieterich

There's something bigger than improvised music versus pop music versus something else. What actually succeeds in being communicated are human feeling…

- John Dieterich

I can talk about feelings, but I can't talk about why this chord on top of this chord sounds cool to me. It just makes me feel a certain way, and I l…

- John Dieterich

I make sure to hold onto everything, even the stuff I've gotten rid of, because if there's one thing I've learned about the band is that I'll bring s…

- John Dieterich