Quotes by Evan Parker about Opinion

9 quotes by Evan Parker about opinion

Evan Parker British musician

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.

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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.

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I've never been one that thinks that the function of an...

I've never been one that thinks that the function of an instrument is to approach the purity of voice or the structure of a beautifully sung line.

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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.

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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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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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There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes...

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

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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.

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To speak about notation as the only way that you can...

To speak about notation as the only way that you can guarantee structure of course is already very suspect.

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