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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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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I would love to work with someone like Kevin Spacey as he could pass on what I need to learn.
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People think that there is a country there that these people are only around when they are on CNN. I don't think that's limited to Haiti.
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One of the things that's beautiful about New Orleans is how culturally rich we are and how well we have worked together. People call us a gumbo. It's really important that we get focused on the very simple notion that diversity is a strength, it's not a weakness.
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I'm on the board of a national group called Faith in America. It's designed to fight religious-based bigotry.
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You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.
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It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.
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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.
