Bill Dixon Quotes
Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations. I have not released large orchestral works as recordings because it hasn't been within the realm of possibility.
Quotes to Explore
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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
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I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests.
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I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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I'm such a perfectionist.
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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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It is better to predict dramatic things that don't happen than boring things that do.
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My dad said, 'Cam, you can make this situation a dream or you can make this situation a nightmare.' That struck a fire under me. That was my drive.
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'Newsies' is definitely aerobic! The boys have to do a lot more than I do in the show, but for 'King of New York,' the big Act Two tap number, I have to be warmed up or I will hurt myself.
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I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.
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The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years.
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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
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The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.
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We will also allow state companies to sell shares to their workers and will pass a law allowing citizens to start companies of their own with no limits on the number of employees or on the firm's output.
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I feel very much satisfied to play in Baltimore.
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When I was a general assignment reporter early in my career, I was the one knocking on their door after a tragedy.
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'Until Friday Night' is the first book in my new young adult series, 'The Field Party.'
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Back when I started, you could either be a folk singer, or you could be a disco diva, or you could be a secretary or maybe a disc jockey, but there was no room for anything alternative yet.
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At different times in my life, I've made grand statements like, 'I want these many kids, and I want them by this age.' I think, with every year that goes by, I accept that I don't know when it's going to happen or how it's going to happen. I'll just take it one day at a time, and when I'm ready, I'll be ready. It'll reveal itself, I guess.
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My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.
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I'm interested in people who are very close to the people who commit crimes.
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I learned how not to be alone in the playground.
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Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations. I have not released large orchestral works as recordings because it hasn't been within the realm of possibility.
