Bill Dixon Quotes

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• I think people who sample are cheating. It is like people who do collages. Use all of your own stuff.
• I have no distributor... it is indicative to me that there are these pockets of players and collectors all over. You should see the correspondence…
• In the middle 1940s... I heard everyone live. Painting, the theater; everything was happening. It was an exciting time when New York was the place…
• I have been going to Italy since 1980, but I always went to do work. I did not live overseas, because I do not like…
• 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 listened…
• Fear is the biggest motivator.
• I do not, as a rule, do encores. When I have finished playing, I have indeed finished playing. I have nothing left; there has been…
• While everyone has a right to his or her opinion, the people who are informed have more of a right.
• I have been using delay and reverberation since the middle 1960s. I use them to make what is almost inaudible to the ear, audible. I…
• If I had money, I would like to get an old building, have music performances, do lithographs, have shows of paintings, and do those things…
• If I produce it, I will stage it as a performance. A small audience will be invited; rehearsals of the sections will be done in…
• If you are you, 24 hours a day, then you do not have to remember who you are supposed to be in different situations -…
• 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.…
• 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 within…
• My career has been different from most people, but I knew what I was not going to do. I knew I was not going to…
• 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…
• 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 know…
• Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematically and without compromise for over 40 years.…
• When Coltrane died, a void appeared in this music that has not been filled yet. He maintained a forward motion in his work and did…

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