Joseph Jarman

Well, dojo is a traditional Japanese word for training hall.

— Joseph Jarman

Well, actually, I don't consider myself a jazz legend or anything.

— Joseph Jarman

People call to keep me abreast of what's going on.

— Joseph Jarman

The Vision Festival was packed every night, always has been for the four years it's been happening.

— Joseph Jarman

It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble.

— Joseph Jarman

We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that.

— Joseph Jarman

I hadn't been practicing or playing or anything. But that had been a vital part of my life.

— Joseph Jarman

I've been fortunate in that I've been forced to move from zone to zone.

— Joseph Jarman

In fact, since no one's been interested in my work, I took the responsibility recently to invest in my own work, so…

— Joseph Jarman

I've been informed by both sides, jazz, western music, Asian music, African music, all sides, because I've been interested in the sound…

— Joseph Jarman

So okay, I accepted, and I realized while working for that concert that I'd been missing something very important and vital to…

— Joseph Jarman

Well, remember that we were all members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.

— Joseph Jarman

You know, face painting in non-Western cultures is a sign of collectivism, is a sign of one representing the community, it's not…

— Joseph Jarman

Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression.

— Joseph Jarman

So all of the music had reference, or is inspired by something of the dharma that I've come in contact with.

— Joseph Jarman

In our eyes, heroes, gods, masters do not exist. We love and respect every musician, whether from the past, the future, or...…

— Joseph Jarman

When Christopher and Charles passed away, I was completely depressed, I felt rejected and real down, and so Roscoe invited me because…

— Joseph Jarman

It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble. But it seemed more important…

— Joseph Jarman

You know, Equal Interest played at the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival Awards and not one musician from that category was even thought…

— Joseph Jarman

But back to your question, it was a wonderful experience with the Art Ensemble, and I keep in contact and sort of…

— Joseph Jarman

So, immediately after that, I got a commission to write a piece for chamber orchestra, and in working on the material I…

— Joseph Jarman

Lotta people don't realize when you grow up with people, you have an affinity, a relationship you don't get with anyone else.…

— Joseph Jarman

To be here drinking a Coke can influence the process of musical creation as much as anything.

— Joseph Jarman

People doing the kind of sound research that I'm interested in still have a difficult time.

— Joseph Jarman

In 1993, I retired from the Art Ensemble of Chicago to devote myself full time to Buddhist studies and to the practice…

— Joseph Jarman

Well, by the end of the millennium, five, six months from now, we hope to somehow manage to move into a new…

— Joseph Jarman