Every time I play with someone, not just a new person, but someone I’ve been with all along, that’s where I really learn.
BILL FRISELLIt’s incredible how one song or even one little phrase or just a few notes, if you really concentrate on it, can be a kaleidoscope of possibility.
More Bill Frisell Quotes
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I hate labels; the problem is that if you say you’re one thing, it’s hard for people to imagine you as something else. Music is way more complicated than that.
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A refuge, a magical world where anyone can go, where all kinds of people can come together, and anything can happen. We are limited only by our imaginations.
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Now I’m trying to let what’s in there come out and acknowledge where I come from. I’m trying to make it more. ..true.
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To me, jazz is a place where anything is possible.
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There’s always this sound out there that’s just a little beyond my reach & that just sort of keeps me going.
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It’s incredible how one song or even one little phrase or just a few notes, if you really concentrate on it, can be a kaleidoscope of possibility.
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I’ve been lucky with the circle of people I’m playing with. We’ve played enough that there’s a language we talk with each other when we play.
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I used to edit myself. If something seemed super-simple I had to make it more complicated.
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I do know the older I get, the more I’m referencing music I heard as a kid.
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I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players.
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First I was a European-style player, then I was a downtown ‘noise guy,’ and now some people call me an Americana guy.
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In so many ways, it feels the same now when I play as the very first time I picked up the instrument. There’s always this sound out there that’s just a little bit beyond my reach and I’m trying to get there and that just sort of keeps me going.
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“Music, for me, has always been a place where anything is possible.
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There’s so much music out there & so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.
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For me the music community was always like a model for what could be. The way people would play together, just harmony and being – old guys and young guys, black guys and white guys. It was setting an example for what the rest of us could be.
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