I had the fortunate experience to play with people from different schools of music. Sam Rivers is from the fundamentalist school of music.
“When you repeat, in that wooden and perfunctory way, that our situation is better than others, that we're 'well-placed to weather the storm', I have to tell you that you sound like a Brezhnev-era apparatchik giving the party line.”
“Taking stock of what you own, when done correctly and thoroughly, helps dampen the urge to shop frivolously.”