Quotes for 1/5/2012

• A kind of synthesis, but with some elements that perhaps you wouldn't have expected in advance. I always like that when that happens, when something comes that is more than the sum of the parts. (Evan Shaw 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. (Evan Shaw Parker)
• But I think the record will actually come from tapes that are not yet recorded. (Evan Shaw Parker)
• 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. (Evan Shaw Parker)
• 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. (Evan Shaw 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. (Evan Shaw Parker)
• I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments. (Evan Shaw Parker)
• I think the whole question of meaning in music is difficult enough even if you hear me playing live right now in the same room! What I mean and what you take from it may be two quite different things anyway. (Evan Shaw Parker)
• 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. (Evan Shaw Parker)
• If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances. (Evan Shaw Parker)
• Improvisation is a compositional method. (Evan Shaw 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. (Evan Shaw Parker)
• It's not like, I don't know, if Madonna has a new record out, then everybody from Bangkok to Birmingham knows what its called and can buy it the same week. But our stuff is not in that mass market. (Evan Shaw 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. (Evan Shaw 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. (Evan Shaw 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. (Evan Shaw Parker)
• There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore. (Evan Shaw 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. (Evan Shaw Parker)
• 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! (Evan Shaw Parker)
• To speak about notation as the only way that you can guarantee structure of course is already very suspect. (Evan Shaw Parker)
• You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses. (Evan Shaw Parker)
• My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked. (Elizabeth Taylor)
• People who know me well, call me Elizabeth. I dislike Liz. (Elizabeth Taylor)
• Richard is a very sexy man. He's got that sort of jungle essence that one can sense. (Elizabeth Taylor)
• Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses. (Elizabeth Taylor)
• Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells. (Elizabeth Taylor)
• You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal. (Elizabeth Taylor)
• You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal (Elizabeth Taylor)
• Forty always sound so important. The Big Four-O. It's halfway, or more, through life, but I find it so appealing. I've always wanted to be older. (Elizabeth Taylor)
• When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tomorrow. (Elizabeth Taylor)
• There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them. (Elizabeth Taylor)
• I've been married too many times. How terrible to change children's affiliations, their affections - to give them the insecurity of placing their trust in someone when maybe that someone won't be there next year. (Elizabeth Taylor)
• I still can't believe it. I don't want to believe it. It can't be so. He will live in my heart forever but it’s not enough. My life feels so empty. I don't think anyone knew how much we loved each other. The purest most giving love I've ever known. (Elizabeth Taylor)
• I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions. (Elizabeth Taylor)
• To preserve and improve (these properties) is the desired outcome. We want Elkhart's neighborhoods to be attractive and welcoming. The primary focus is to improve the quality of life. (Wayne Kramer)
• I'm inclined to pick up the phone and ask them (state officials) why there is no guidance in handing this, rather than leaving the determination to local election boards. We need to have someone with authority in working with handicapped issues allow us to make a declaration whether or not these locations comply. (Wayne Kramer)
• We're hopeful we'll be able to identify many more. (Wayne Kramer)
• The city has received no official communication from the county prosecutor as to what his intention are, if any. (Wayne Kramer)
• It's really a film about screwed-up parenting - but done with good intentions. (Wayne Kramer)
• I know some of the churches are planning their schedules Sunday around the new time, so it would be nice if the clock downtown reflected that on people's drive to church Sunday morning. (Wayne Kramer)
• We'll gather to address the short-term and long-term plan for the Elco. (Wayne Kramer)
• (Oleg) lives on the dark side of that American dream. He's always next door playing with Nicky because he wants to (be a part of) that family. It's like a Pinocchio story in that he's not treated like a real kid - he doesn't have a real kid's life. (Wayne Kramer)
• Truth and love are my law and worship; Form and conscience my manifestation and guide; Nature and peace are my shelter and companion; Order is my attitude; Beauty and perfection are my attack. (Wayne Kramer)
• The soul of America weeps for the dead youth of this illegal and immoral war. It is time to step up and be heard. (Wayne Kramer)
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• I'm inclined to pick up the phone and ask them (state officials) why there is no guidance in handing this, rather than leaving the determination to local election boards. We need to have someone with authority in working with handicapped issues allow us to make a declaration Wayne Kramer whether or not these locations comply. (Wayne Kramer)
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• We'll gather to address the short-term and long-term Wayne Kramer plan for the Elco. (Wayne Kramer)
• Aesthetically, we were enormously successful. Economically... there was no success. It was all about music of the future and unfortunately it was a band that Wayne Kramer didn't have any future. (Wayne Kramer)
• I know some of the churches are planning their schedules Sunday around the new time, so it would be nice if the clock downtown reflected that on people's drive Wayne Kramer to church Sunday morning. (Wayne Kramer)
• Truth and love are my law and worship; Form and conscience my manifestation and guide; Nature and peace are my shelter and companion; Order is my Wayne Kramer attitude; Beauty and perfection are my attack. (Wayne Kramer)
• As time went on, we formed a number of different bands. We played in rival, neighborhood bands. We learned more songs and we learned how to play Chuck Berry Wayne Kramer music and we learned Ventures songs. (Wayne Kramer)
• But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some Wayne Kramer possibilities I didn't see otherwise. (Wayne Kramer)
• Drugs, sex, booze, all the stuff that we wanted to do. The problem was that we didn't want to learn the top 40 'cause most of the music was awful and we had this other Wayne Kramer idea about what we wanted to do. (Wayne Kramer)
• Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of Wayne Kramer anything. (Wayne Kramer)
• I hate that expression, 'fusion.' What it means to me is Wayne Kramer this movement where nothing ever really fused. (Wayne Kramer)
• I was a little ahead of him but that didn't matter after Wayne Kramer awhile. (Wayne Kramer)
• If you put this in the context of Detroit in '64 or '65, the economy was booming. Everybody had jobs and there Wayne Kramer was a whole nightclub culture where bands could work. (Wayne Kramer)
• It wasn't a class system where I was the better guy and he was the second-rate guy. That was his role and my role was to play the solos. But he took great pride in his Wayne Kramer technique as a rhythm guitarist. (Wayne Kramer)
• We played together for so long and we got to the point where our styles blended together. Even today, sometimes I'll hear our records and I'm not really sure who played what. And we took a bunch of acid together Wayne Kramer too. (Wayne Kramer)
• When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til the end of the night when they were Wayne Kramer really stretched out. It could be pretty lame. (Wayne Kramer)
• When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet. We were struggling how to learn our instruments and play Wayne Kramer songs to be able to perform for people. (Wayne Kramer)
• You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that Wayne Kramer we could do without puking. (Wayne Kramer)
• When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent Wayne Kramer they knew who played bongos. (Wayne Kramer)
• It was in part [Wayne Kramer's] influence to make Nightwatchmen music and play and write and sing my own songs. (Wayne Kramer)
• esthetically, we were enormously successful. Economically... there was no success. It was all about music of the future and unfortunately it was a band that didn't have any future. (Wayne Kramer)
• time went on, we formed a number of different bands. We played in rival, neighborhood bands. We learned more songs and we learned how to play Chuck Berry music and we learned Ventures songs. (Wayne Kramer)
• When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. (Wayne Kramer)
• I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. (Wayne Kramer)

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