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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 Peter came that summer. So it's a very pivotal moment that is documented there."

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"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 Peter came that summer. So it's a very pivotal moment that is documented there."

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Donna Grant

"I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir."

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Donna Grant

"When you get something like MTV, it's like regular television. You get it, and at first it's novel and brand new and then you watch every channel, every show. And then you become a little more selective and more selective, until ultimately... you wind up with a radio."

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Donna Grant

"But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions."

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Donna Grant

"Hang 'em first, try 'em later."

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Donna Grant

"When Seymour saw me seated at the piano at that first rehearsal, he shouted: 'What's that kid doing here? Call your piano player and let's get started.'"

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Donna Grant

"I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer."

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Donna Grant

"You must first get along with yourself before you can get along with others."

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Donna Grant

"Sound is the first thing that we tune into."

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Donna Grant

"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."

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Donna Grant

"The first thing I'll do if elected is demand a recount."

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Evan Parker
"I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo, came out of having discovered what lay behind the doors that that technique opened for me."

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Evan Parker
"There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore."

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Evan Parker
"I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments."

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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 Air Force, which was a pretty standard way for people to get some kind of musical education in those days."

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Evan Parker
"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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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 Peter came that summer. So it's a very pivotal moment that is documented there."

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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-called free improvisations."

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

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Evan Parker
"So I'm looking to the saxophone as a resource which has its own unique set of possibilities. I'm looking to exploit them and develop them and have the fullest range of possibilities of the saxophone be known."

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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 in the history of the music and advised Martin Davidson of the existence of these tapes."

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