The magic of playing has to do with how much everyone wants it to succeed. If you have five players in a situation where the music is being improvised and one is determined it is not going to succeed, it… — Bill Dixon Copy Share Image
If you are you, 24 hours a day, then you do not have to remember who you are supposed to be in different situations… — Bill Dixon Copy Share
I think people who sample are cheating. It is like people who do collages. Use all of your own stuff. — Bill Dixon Copy Share
I have been using delay and reverberation since the middle 1960s. I use them to make what is almost inaudible to the ear, audible.… — Bill Dixon Copy Share
Whatever I do, I attempt to do it fully. I try, and don't always succeed, to be thorough. There are musicians who do not… — Bill Dixon Copy Share
I do not, as a rule, do encores. When I have finished playing, I have indeed finished playing. I have nothing left; there has… — Bill Dixon Copy Share
The magic of playing has to do with how much everyone wants it to succeed. If you have five players in a situation where… — Bill Dixon Copy Share
Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations. I have not released large orchestral works as recordings because it hasn't been… — Bill Dixon Copy Share
In the middle 1940s... I heard everyone live. Painting, the theater; everything was happening. It was an exciting time when New York was the… — Bill Dixon Copy Share
My career has been different from most people, but I knew what I was not going to do. I knew I was not going… — Bill Dixon Copy Share
Rock musicians, and a vast array of popular-music musicians, due to their wealth, acquired through the mass of their notoriety, are able to be… — Bill Dixon Copy Share
When Coltrane died, a void appeared in this music that has not been filled yet. He maintained a forward motion in his work and… — Bill Dixon Copy Share
If I produce it, I will stage it as a performance. A small audience will be invited; rehearsals of the sections will be done… — Bill Dixon Copy Share
Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematically and without compromise for over 40… — Bill Dixon Copy Share
While everyone has a right to his or her opinion, the people who are informed have more of a right. — Bill Dixon Copy Share
