” You could say that everything the musicians have learned and known over the years, all of their technical resources, are in a dialogue with the things they are discovering every time, as if it was the first time. “
” We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don’t just shut out different languages, you use all the languages that you have. “
” The totality of a record is usually beyond ones ability to imagine when you start working on it, but the component parts are, usually, fairly clear one way or another. “
” Some things don’t wind up sounding like you’d expect, which is just as well. “
” Not necessarily in one concert, but they’re all there to be used if you want to use them. “
” It’s like learning a language, you can’t speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar. “
” If you write songs you have an idea how they’re going to sound. “
” And so many of the kinds of labels you get stuck with don’t really tell the story, Progressive, Art Rock, Noise Music, Downtown – it ends up being a struggle to stay out of debates that other people are having around you. “
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