"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."
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"Of course I knew the work of Roland Kirk and Harry Carney and the specific uses they would make of circular breathing, so I knew it was physically possible."
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"Of course when people are as talented as Jim O'Rourke or Gene Coleman, pretty soon you know that they're going to be part of the bigger scene anyway."
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"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."
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"I didn't get where I am today by being timid, young man."
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"I've been to the studio several times, and it's 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."
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"So what starts is ad hoc and you never know where it's going to lead, so it's important to keep an open mind about those things."
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"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."
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"The argument we always used to use was that keeping records in the catalog was good for people that were coming new to the music, but I think that was talking over a ten year or fifteen year time span."
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