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 DIXONIf 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.
More Bill Dixon Quotes
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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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My career has been different from most people, but I knew what I was not going to do.
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All people have to do is listen to realize it is a beautiful record.
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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.
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I have not released large orchestral works as recordings because it hasn’t been within the realm of possibility.
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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.
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Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations.
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The magic of playing has to do with how much everyone wants it to succeed.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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Fear is the biggest motivator.
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