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Top 25 Evan Parker Quotes (2025 Update)

Evan Parker Quote: “There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don’t concern me anymore.”

1. “There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don’t concern me anymore.”

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Evan Parker Quote: “My roots are in my record player.”

2. “My roots are in my record player.”

— Evan Parker

Evan Parker Quote: “So what starts is ad hoc and you never know where it’s going to lead, so it’s important to keep an open mind about those things.”

3. “So what starts is ad hoc and you never know where it’s going to lead, so it’s important to keep an open mind about those things.”

— Evan Parker

Evan Parker Quote: “To speak about notation as the only way that you can guarantee structure of course is already very suspect.”

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

— Evan Parker

Evan Parker Quote: “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.”

5. “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 Parker

Evan Parker Quote: “I didn’t get where I am today by being timid, young man.”

6. “I didn’t get where I am today by being timid, young man.”

— Evan Parker

Evan Parker Quote: “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!”

7. “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 Parker

Evan Parker Quote: “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.”

8. “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 Parker

Evan Parker Quote: “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.”

9. “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 Parker

Evan Parker Quote: “Improvisation is a compositional method.”

10. “Improvisation is a compositional method.”

— Evan Parker

Evan Parker Quote: “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.”

11. “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 Quote: “In my mind these two instruments speak to me in different ways, and the solo stuff seems to be easier to do on the soprano.”

12. “In my mind these two instruments speak to me in different ways, and the solo stuff seems to be easier to do on the soprano.”

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Evan Parker Quote: “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.”

13. “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 Quote: “Of course when people are as talented as Jim O’Rourke or Gene Coleman, pretty soon you know that they’re going to be part of the bigger scene anyway.”

14. “Of course when people are as talented as Jim O’Rourke or Gene Coleman, pretty soon you know that they’re going to be part of the bigger scene anyway.”

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Evan Parker Quote: “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.”

15. “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 Parker

Evan Parker Quote: “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.”

16. “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 Parker

Evan Parker Quote: “When you add a period of 25 years between the playing and the listening, then the whole question of meaning gets very complicated.”

17. “When you add a period of 25 years between the playing and the listening, then the whole question of meaning gets very complicated.”

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Evan Parker Quote: “You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses.”

18. “You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses.”

— Evan Parker

Evan Parker Quote: “If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances.”

19. “If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances.”

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Evan Parker Quote: “Of course I knew the work of Roland Kirk and Harry Carney and the specific uses they would make of circular breathing, so I knew it was physically possible.”

20. “Of course I knew the work of Roland Kirk and Harry Carney and the specific uses they would make of circular breathing, so I knew it was physically possible.”

— Evan Parker

Evan Parker Quote: “I’d met Roscoe in Europe quite a few times over the years, and we’d say hi and so on, but this was the first time we’d actually played together.”

21. “I’d met Roscoe in Europe quite a few times over the years, and we’d say hi and so on, but this was the first time we’d actually played together.”

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Evan Parker Quote: “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.”

22. “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 Quote: “We all listened to a lot of recorded music, especially American jazz, modern jazz, and that’s where our studies were and our inspiration came from.”

23. “We all listened to a lot of recorded music, especially American jazz, modern jazz, and that’s where our studies were and our inspiration came from.”

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Evan Parker Quote: “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.”

24. “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 Parker

Evan Parker Quote: “Remarkable only the very best arrangers can get a sound like that from four horns.”

25. “Remarkable only the very best arrangers can get a sound like that from four horns.”

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Evan Parker Quote: “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.”

26. “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 Parker

Evan Parker Quote: “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.”

27. “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.”

— Evan Parker

Evan Parker Quote: “I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments.”

28. “I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments.”

— Evan Parker

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