Joseph Jarman Quotes

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• People call to keep me abreast of what's going on.
• Well, actually, I don't consider myself a jazz legend or anything.
• So okay, I accepted, and I realized while working for that concert that I'd been missing something very important and vital to me, and that…
• I've been fortunate in that I've been forced to move from zone to zone.
• I've been informed by both sides, jazz, western music, Asian music, African music, all sides, because I've been interested in the sound of the universe,…
• In fact, since no one's been interested in my work, I took the responsibility recently to invest in my own work, so I'm producing a…
• It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble.
• Lotta people don't realize when you grow up with people, you have an affinity, a relationship you don't get with anyone else. After you're twenty…
• People doing the kind of sound research that I'm interested in still have a difficult time.
• The Vision Festival was packed every night, always has been for the four years it's been happening.
• We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that.
• Well, dojo is a traditional Japanese word for training hall.
• You know, face painting in non-Western cultures is a sign of collectivism, is a sign of one representing the community, it's not unique at all.
• When Christopher and Charles passed away, I was completely depressed, I felt rejected and real down, and so Roscoe invited me because he had this…
• Well, remember that we were all members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.
• Well, by the end of the millennium, five, six months from now, we hope to somehow manage to move into a new location where we…
• Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression.
• But back to your question, it was a wonderful experience with the Art Ensemble, and I keep in contact and sort of follow what's going…
• I hadn't been practicing or playing or anything. But that had been a vital part of my life.
• So all of the music had reference, or is inspired by something of the dharma that I've come in contact with.

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