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I get tired of people making excuses for guys who don’t continue the art because they can’t make a living.

Bill Dixon

I get tired of people making excuses for guys who don’t continue the art because they can’t make a living.
BILL DIXON

Continue Excuses Guys Living Male
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.
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Change International Level Musician Rocks
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.
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Correspondence Know Letting Received Significant
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.
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Controlled Going Large Price
My career has been different from most people, but I knew what I was not going to do.
BILL DIXON

Careers Different People
Fear is the biggest motivator.
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Biggest Fear Motivator
I have not released large orchestral works as recordings because it hasn’t been within the realm of possibility.
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Possibility Realm Recording Released
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.
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Beautiful Painful People Undervalued
Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations.
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Groups Possibilities Realms
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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Control Improvised Musician Situation
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.
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Country Happening Middle Painting
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.
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Adequate Art Attention Tired Years
All people have to do is listen to realize it is a beautiful record.
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Listen People Realize Record
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

Dwell Musicians Past Try
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

Delay Loudly Play Reverberation Use
The magic of playing has to do with how much everyone wants it to succeed.
BILL DIXON

Magic Musician Player

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