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"Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music."
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"I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing. I don't think it works in other music, other kinds of playing."

"Personally, I've found one of the more stimulating ways of playing in recent times has been to kind of move outside the free improvised area and work with people who are probably improvisers but they have a particular way of working."

"Personally, I've found that the kind of thing that I like is going into somebody else's area and not playing their music but doing whatever I do in their area."

"In fact it's quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of working now being quite so profligate in their use of it."

"I've always liked the effect of having somebody in there who hadn't the faintest idea what was going on."

"Even if it is difficult playing with other people - sometimes it's great, sometimes it isn't, but that is kind of the point of it. It loses its point playing solo."
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