"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."

Body, Grammar, Language, Learning

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"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."

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"If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing. I'm a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black."

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"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."

Art

"I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it."

Habit

"There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert."

Music

"We went through this business of me writing out all the parts for these old songs from Gravity and Speechless and we'd been performing that, but we don't do that any more."

Business

"If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound."

Idea

"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."

Ability

"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."

Time

"As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets."

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"I don't know if I'm striving for anything that I can put into words."

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"Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition."

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