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 DIXONWhether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematically and without compromise for over 40 years.
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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All people have to do is listen to realize it is a beautiful record.
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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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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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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.
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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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My career has been different from most people, but I knew what I was not going to do.
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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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I have no distributor… it is indicative to me that there are these pockets of players and collectors all over.
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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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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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The magic of playing has to do with how much everyone wants it to succeed.
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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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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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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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