Bill Dixon
Bill Dixon
Bill Dixonwas an American musician, composer, visual artist, and educator. Dixon was one of the seminal figures in the free jazz movement. He played the trumpet, flugelhorn, and piano, often using electronic delay and reverberation as part of his trumpet playing...
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth5 October 1925
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In certain areas of this music, especially since the 1960s - and that is no coincidence - certain people have been singled out for attention and the others have been totally ignored to the extent that the interested music public has been made to believe that they no longer exist.
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The next Charlie Parker is out there somewhere. He is not in one of these schools. He is not getting any of these grants. This music desperately needs to be subsidized so that the people who are trying to do something and have no access can have access to something. I was on one of the National Endowment Panels some years ago and it was an eye-opener to actually witness the selection process in operation.
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If, when making reference to a larger musical grouping, you say orchestra, you can readily expect that they will seek to correct you and let you know that it's really a big band. Continued insistence over the years has only served to make those people think you are being pedantic.
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While everyone has a right to his or her opinion, the people who are informed have more of a right.
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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. All people have to do is listen to realize it is a beautiful record.
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My career has been different from most people, but I knew what I was not going to do. 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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I think people who sample are cheating. It is like people who do collages. Use all of your own stuff.
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I am not interested in petty gossip; I am not interested in who sells the most records and the politicizing of economics that makes that possible. I am not interested in a body politic of the largely uninformed who attempt to politically designate certain people as deserving of wider recognition.
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The bass provides a sort of liquid foundational formation that does not gravitationally tie you down. It is good at revealing and highlighting a certain harmonic pinpoint when one is either being looked for or needed.
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The Canadians, by the paucity of invitations that have been extended to me to do things there, have obviously never been that enamored with my work.
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If musicians don't do any music, then there isn't any music. Musicians are very tricky and can be quite elusive.
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I walked up on a pipe that had two end caps on it. It looked like a pipe bomb to me, so I told the officers, they called the bomb and arson squad out, and they just detonated it and it was an explosive device.
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It went pretty good. They seemed more than willing to try to work with the neighborhood to accommodate everybody.
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There was a bunch of rockets and stuff, like toy rockets, models and stuff like that.