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No other type of music-making contradicts itself through its recording like improvisation does.

— Mattin Anti-Copyright: Why Improvisation and Noise Run Against the Idea of Intellectual Property (2008)

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Only very few manage to keep searching for fragility; it requires musicians to make multiple breaks from their own traditions.

Going Fragile (2005)

If successful, improvisation runs against its own dogmatism.

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Opening new fields of permissibility means to go fragile until we destroy the fears that hold us back.

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While nobody might recognise the importance of what you have done, you need to keep your confidence. It is difficult to be alone in working toward something and yet not know where it will take you…

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Maybe I still am, but I also understand more the problems involved with rock, how close-minded it sometimes is, how male.

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