Bill Dixon Quotes
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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I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence.
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The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible.
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Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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The more I've gotten interested in writing about history and making sense of myself within the continuum of history, the more I've turned to paintings, to art. I look to the imagery of art to help me understand something about my own place in the world.
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A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
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To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
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Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.
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I'm a television junkie.
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A barrier for me – which has been both a strength and a weakness – has been my taste. The kind of things I'm interested in aren't always mainstream.
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I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.
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Paper Moon didn't bring me love.
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It's hard to mix with a crowd when you're walking down the hallway and everybody else is a foot shorter. I remember hanging out with my friends, like at the mall, and thinking people were staring at me and talking about me. It made me turn inside myself. I became more shy and quiet.
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I see a New York that is once again the empire state.
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I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father. I want to be judged on my own merits.
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We want to encourage people. We want to help them. We want them to see all the good things God has placed in them and give them a right future.
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A lot of people are angry about the democratic abuses that have been committed by the Spanish government.
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I give big ups to people who are very big on social media, whether they're doing vlogs or whatever. It takes a lot of effort.
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A producer wouldn't think of making a film about ballet dancers without using real dancers, but they will cast actors who have never held a bat in baseball films.
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I have met with political leaders, legislators, and diplomats, seeking the next steps to press in reducing and eliminating the nuclear threat in this century. I have participated in public coalitions developing programmes for action to combat the global rash of small arms. All are trying and making a difference.
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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.