Interested listeners have only to hear the recording to find out if those guys, who go to such pains to undervalue my work, are right. All people have to do is listen to realize it is a beautiful record. — 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 Image
I think people who sample are cheating. It is like people who do collages. Use all of your own stuff. — Bill Dixon Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
