Quotes by David Baker

But it seems to me that we ended up with the things that were able to fit in what had already been the tradition.

Evangelicals, through their own scholarship as well as the support and encouragement of such bodies as Tyndale Fellowship, the John Wesley Fellowship and, to a lesser extent, the Institute for Biblical Research, have been able to secure positions in academic institutions beyond those traditionally regarded as evangelical. This includes folks teaching at major public and private universities.

I believe without exception that theory follows practice. Whenever there is a conflict between theory and practice, theory is wrong. As far as I'm concerned, we make theories for what people have done.

I think we all realized that we had really been replicating things that had already been happening. I don't know if we were smart enough to realize that we were in a cul-de-sac, but we were curious.

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

If we looked at the symphony orchestra, it is still basically European music prior to 1945 or 1949. It doesn't matter how much we go beyond that - whether we're talking about the minimalism of Terry Riley or Philip Glass or if we're talking about Luciano Berio. If you look at the core of the music, the mainstream is still there.

In retrospect I realize that the threat was about ego rather than the validity of the music.

In searching for truth, I would hope that liberals and conservatives could work together. There are certainly areas where presuppositions will affect what questions might be asked and approaches that will be employed, and these are areas where different groups will do their own research and thinking.

It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice.

So I'm playing wrong changes while Mingus is standing in the door, looking at me, saying, If you're gonna' play, at least play the right changes. And Mingus already had the reputation of having punched Jimmy Knepper out, and I didn't need that!

That is, the only reason salvation is necessary is to get us back to the garden. The Pentateuch not only presents where we began but also why we are not there any more, and why and how we need to get back.

The instructors were often neophytes at teaching us, but they possessed the information. We used the Socratic method. We had to ask them about the things we wanted to know, but there were other musicians who were interacting with us all the time, each leading a group.

We need to ask what are our common goals, and how can we work together toward solving problems and meeting needs. In the past we too often have said that because we differ from each other in points A and B, we can't work together at all.

What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I learned the regular scales or the alphabet. If you give me the tools, the syntax, and the grammar, it still doesn't tell me how to write Ulysses.

When I look back now, it must have been like Paris was at the time of Le Sacre du Printemps.

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