21 Quotations by Bill Dixon
- 1. Fear is the biggest motivator.
- 2. I am not interested in petty gossip; I am not interested in who sells the most records and the polit ...
- 3. I come from a generation where the dreams and aspirations of a whole lot of young men were sacrifice ...
- 4. I did not make my first recording until I was 37... I did not even start to study music until I was ...
- 5. I do not, as a rule, do encores. When I have finished playing, I have indeed finished playing. I hav ...
- 6. I have been going to Italy since 1980, but I always went to do work. I did not live overseas, becaus ...
- 7. If I produce it, I will stage it as a performance. A small audience will be invited; rehearsals of t ...
- 8. If you are you, 24 hours a day, then you do not have to remember who you are supposed to be in diffe ...
- 9. If you think about it, $100,000 in terms of a recording is not a lot of money. For musicians who are ...
- 10. If, when making reference to a larger musical grouping, you say orchestra, you can readily expect th ...
- 11. Interested listeners have only to hear the recording to find out if those guys, who go to such pains ...
- 12. My career has been different from most people, but I knew what I was not going to do. I knew I was n ...
- 13. Rock musicians, and a vast array of popular-music musicians, due to their wealth, acquired through t ...
- 14. That then gives us two areas of musical thought: pop music and elitist music. Isn't there room for a ...
- 15. The bass provides a sort of liquid foundational formation that does not gravitationally tie you down ...
- 16. The idea of the nightclub as a supported and supportive venue for the creation of music is as outdat ...
- 17. The magic of playing has to do with how much everyone wants it to succeed. If you have five players ...
- 18. When Coltrane died, a void appeared in this music that has not been filled yet. He maintained a forw ...
- 19. When it comes to this music, it just seems to be a foregone conclusion that there is going to be som ...
- 20. Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematical ...
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