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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

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.
BILL DIXON

Beautiful Painful People Undervalued
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

Country Happening Middle Painting
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
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 no distributor… it is indicative to me that there are these pockets of players and collectors all over.
BILL DIXON

Letting Go Player Thinking
Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations.
BILL DIXON

Groups Possibilities Realms
I have not released large orchestral works as recordings because it hasn’t been within the realm of possibility.
BILL DIXON

Possibility Realm Recording Released
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

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.
BILL DIXON

Adequate Art Attention Tired Years
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

Control Improvised Musician Situation
The magic of playing has to do with how much everyone wants it to succeed.
BILL DIXON

Magic Musician Player
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

Anchored Country Left Finished Nothing
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

Buildings Old Paintings Performance Shows
I think people who sample are cheating. It is like people who do collages. Use all of your own stuff.
BILL DIXON

Cheating People Thinking
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

Correspondence Know Letting Received Significant
Fear is the biggest motivator.
BILL DIXON

Biggest Fear Motivator

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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