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

Bill Dixon

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

Careers Different People
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
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
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
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
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

Change International Level Musician Rocks
The magic of playing has to do with how much everyone wants it to succeed.
BILL DIXON

Magic Musician Player
Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations.
BILL DIXON

Groups Possibilities Realms
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
Fear is the biggest motivator.
BILL DIXON

Biggest Fear Motivator
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 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

Controlled Going Large Price
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
All people have to do is listen to realize it is a beautiful record.
BILL DIXON

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

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