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"I thought if I followed the rules, things would turn out all right. that's the thing about the cure, isn't it? It isn't just about deliria at all. It's about order. A path for everyone. You just have to follow it and everything will be okay. That's what the DFA is about. That's what I belevied in-what I've had to believe in. Because otherwise, it's just...chaos."
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Personal Development
"The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order."
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"But when the world is, indeed, in chaos, then an affirmation of cosmos becomes essential."
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"Discipline is a demand of life."
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Personal Development
"Even freedom needs some rules to keep it from being complete chaos."
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"All laws work for our good; therefore, we should know and observe them."
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"Things refuse to be mismanaged for long."
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"Overrated is order."
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"Nothing Functions Normally Apart From The Principles Of The Kingdom Of God."
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"Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore."
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"But I think the record will actually come from tapes that are not yet recorded."
Will
"Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language."
Music
"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."
Decision
"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."
Time
"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."
Order
"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."
Time
"You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses."
Philosophy
"I think it's a great document of John Stevens' originality. At that time he was already much more fully formed in his conception than I was. I was sort of struggling to keep up, and sometimes it's pretty obvious."
Time
"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."
Possibility
"Those early steps are very important in understanding the evolution. But in themselves, maybe now you need the later records to understand the significance of the earlier records!"
Evolution
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