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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

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

Magic Musician Player
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
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.
BILL DIXON

Adequate Art Attention Tired Years
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
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
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
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
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
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
Fear is the biggest motivator.
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Biggest Fear Motivator
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.
BILL DIXON

Afternoon Done Morning Rehearsals

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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