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I feel so lucky that my high school was right in the middle of Denver, which is one of those sort of segregated towns, with black and white and Hispanic neighborhoods. But the school I went to was right in the middle of the whole thing.

Bill Frisell

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.
BILL FRISELL

Instrument Play Sound Time Trying
I can write the stuff and play it myself and have something in my head, but the best feeling is when somebody else plays it and they’re hearing something other than what I’m hearing.
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Feelings Play Writing
I do know the older I get, the more I’m referencing music I heard as a kid.
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Heard Kids Referencing
I used to edit myself. If something seemed super-simple I had to make it more complicated.
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Complicated Simple Trying
I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players.
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Copying Player Saxophone
There’s so much music out there & so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.
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Music Play Saxophone
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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Country Guy People Player
There’s always this sound out there that’s just a little beyond my reach & that just sort of keeps me going.
BILL FRISELL

Littles Music Sound
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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Concentrate Kaleidoscope Littles Phrases Song
I feel so lucky that my high school was right in the middle of Denver, which is one of those sort of segregated towns, with black and white and Hispanic neighborhoods. But the school I went to was right in the middle of the whole thing.
BILL FRISELL

Black Lucky School Segerated White
I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players. Not to say that it is not important to listen to guitar players, but there’s so much music out there and so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.
BILL FRISELL

Guitar Important Player
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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Circles People Play
To me, jazz is a place where anything is possible.
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Anything Jazz Possible
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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Acknowledge More True Trying
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 FRISELL

Evert Persons Play Time
“Music, for me, has always been a place where anything is possible.
BILL FRISELL

Imagination Music People

I feel so lucky that my high school was right in the middle of Denver, which is one of those sort of segregated towns, with black and white and Hispanic neighborhoods. But the school I went to was right in the middle of the whole thing.

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I feel so lucky that my high school was right in the middle of Denver, which is one of those sort of segregated towns, with black and white and Hispanic neighborhoods. But the school I went to was right in the middle of the whole thing.

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