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

Bill Dixon

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

Careers Different People
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.
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Buildings Old Paintings Performance Shows
All people have to do is listen to realize it is a beautiful record.
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Listen People Realize Record
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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Different Imagine Remember Something
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
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.
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Anchored Country Left Finished Nothing
I think people who sample are cheating. It is like people who do collages. Use all of your own stuff.
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Cheating People Thinking
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
I get tired of people making excuses for guys who don’t continue the art because they can’t make a living.
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Continue Excuses Guys Living Male
The magic of playing has to do with how much everyone wants it to succeed.
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Magic Musician Player
Fear is the biggest motivator.
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Biggest Fear Motivator
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.
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Dwell Musicians Past Try
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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Afternoon Done Morning Rehearsals
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
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
I have no distributor… it is indicative to me that there are these pockets of players and collectors all over.
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Letting Go Player Thinking

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

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