Quotes by Bill Dixon - Page 1

Fear is the biggest motivator.
Bill Dixon / Musician
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While everyone has a right to his or her opinion, the people who are informed have more of a right.
Bill Dixon / Musician
Opinion
People
Informed
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I think people who sample are cheating. It is like people who do collages. Use all of your own stuff.
Bill Dixon / Musician
Cheating
People
Sample
Thinking
Collage
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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 been no reserve.
Bill Dixon / Musician
Encores
Finished
Has Beens
Left
Encore
Indeed
Reserve
Rule
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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 did not look back.
Bill Dixon / Musician
Coltrane
Died
Filled
Void
Appeared
Work Music Look
Maintained
Motion
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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 place to be.
Bill Dixon / Musician
New York
Heard
Middle
Painting
Theater
Everyone
Exciting Time
Time New Live
Happening
Place
York
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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 - something that I imagine could be troublesome.
Bill Dixon / Musician
Different
Imagine
Remember Who You Are
Troublesome
Situations
Supposed
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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 that I'm interested in doing.
Bill Dixon / Musician
Old Buildings
Painting
Shows
Interested
Performance
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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 running around with everything I own in a paper bag.
Bill Dixon / Musician
Running
Bags
Paper
Bag
Italy
Overseas
Paper Bag
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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 within the realm of possibility.
Bill Dixon / Musician
Groups
Possibility
Realms
Works
Group
Large
Material
Orchestral
Realm
Recorded
Released
Small Group
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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 the mornings, and those sections will be recorded in the afternoons.
Bill Dixon / Musician
Morning
Afternoon
Done
Invited
Produce
Sections
Performance
Mornings
Rehearsals
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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. I do not use them to play loudly but to make the higher harmonics heard.
Bill Dixon / Musician
Delay
Heard
Higher
Middle
Play
Use
Since
Almost
Ear
Loudly
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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 / Musician
Beautiful
Listeners
Pain
People
All People
Work Beautiful People
Pains
Undervalue
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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 listened to and heard and thus are able to effect change on an international level.
Bill Dixon / Musician
Change
Smile
Heard
International
Levels
Mass
Musician
Notoriety
Rocks
Wealth
Acquired
Array
Due
Vast
Effect
International Level
Listened
Rock
Musicians
Thus
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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 to be controlled. I knew there was a price for this, but I did not know there was as large a price as it turned out to be.
Bill Dixon / Musician
Careers
Different
People
Price
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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 know their worth, and if they knew it at one time, it has eluded them. I know my worth. You try not to dwell in the past.
Bill Dixon / Musician
Musician
One Time
Past
Succeed
Thorough
Trying
Time Always Past
Attempt
Fully
In The Past
Musicians
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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. I get tired of people making excuses for guys who don't continue the art because they can't make a living.
Bill Dixon / Musician
Art
Adequate
Compromise
Tired
Years
Excuses
Systematically
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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 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.
Bill Dixon / Musician
Determined
Magic
Musician
Player
Succeed
How Much
Improvised
Musicians
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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 I get from over the world letting me know how significant they think I am. I know that wherever I go, I am well received.
Bill Dixon / Musician
Collectors
Correspondence
Letting Go
Player
Pockets
Significant
Thinking
World I Am Me
World Me I Am
Distributor
Indicative
Letting
Received
Wherever
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