"The magic of playing has to do with……" — Bill Dixon
"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 won't succeed even if one of the musicians takes control."
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Bill Dixon
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19 Quotes by Bill Dixon
Bill Dixon has 19 quotes on this site.
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I think people who sample are cheating. It is like people who do collages. Use all of your own stuff.
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I have no distributor... it is indicative to me that there are these pockets of players and collectors all over.…
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In the middle 1940s... I heard everyone live. Painting, the theater; everything was happening. It was an exciting time when…
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I have been going to Italy since 1980, but I always went to do work. I did not live overseas,…
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Rock musicians, and a vast array of popular-music musicians, due to their wealth, acquired through the mass of their notoriety,…
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Fear is the biggest motivator.
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I do not, as a rule, do encores. When I have finished playing, I have indeed finished playing. I have…
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While everyone has a right to his or her opinion, the people who are informed have more of a right.
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I have been using delay and reverberation since the middle 1960s. I use them to make what is almost inaudible…
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If I had money, I would like to get an old building, have music performances, do lithographs, have shows of…
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If I produce it, I will stage it as a performance. A small audience will be invited; rehearsals of the…
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If you are you, 24 hours a day, then you do not have to remember who you are supposed to…
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More Control Quotes
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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the…
— Aristotle
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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning…
— Isaac Asimov
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The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way…
— Bashar al-Assad
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Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.
— Margaret Atwood
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You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
— Marcus Aurelius
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The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own…
— Paul Auster
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path…
— Irving Babbitt
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Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
— Lord Acton
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And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality…
— Lord Acton
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Gun control means being able to hit your target. If I have a 'hot button' issue, this is definitely it.…
— Michael Badnarik
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It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and…
— Red Adair
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If you want to control other people, first control yourself.
— Abu Bakr
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