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“While everyone has a right to his or her opinion, the people who are informed have more of a right.” quote by Bill Dixon — Download Open image

“While everyone has a right to his or her opinion, the people who are informed have more of a right.”

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If you are you, 24 hours a day, then you do not have to remember who you are supposed to be in different situations…

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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 been using delay and reverberation since the middle 1960s. I use them to make what is almost inaudible to the ear, audible.…

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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…

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I do not, as a rule, do encores. When I have finished playing, I have indeed finished playing. I have nothing left; there has…

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The magic of playing has to do with how much everyone wants it to succeed. If you have five players in a situation where…

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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…

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In the middle 1940s... I heard everyone live. Painting, the theater; everything was happening. It was an exciting time when New York was the…

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My career has been different from most people, but I knew what I was not going to do. I knew I was not going…

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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, are able to be…

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When Coltrane died, a void appeared in this music that has not been filled yet. He maintained a forward motion in his work and…

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I remember that the bass was turned up slightly more on the mix from last week, and I thought that was good - or whatever. Like, there were some little things in there that he said that he came to, like, really enjoy my opinion or at least, like, my little comments on the songs. So I was kind of…

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Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this should also present what they believe are public reasons for their argument. So their opinion is no longer just that of one particular party, but an opinion that all members of a society might reasonably agree…

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make…

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