Bill Dixon Quotes
I have been using delay and reverberation since the middle 1960s. I use them to make what is almost inaudible to the ear, audible. I do not use them to play loudly but to make the higher harmonics heard.
Quotes to Explore
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I like doing a challenging class because it makes me more brave in life. My perception of hardships is now completely different. I'm not whining and moaning inside as much.
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You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.
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I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
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It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.
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Bling is good.
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Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.
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Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
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I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.
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A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time.
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I am a fiscal conservative.
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I'm sorry I didn't go to jail for six months, then I know you could come to see me anytime you wanted to.
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To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse.
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I realize that much will be asked of me, yet I am resolved to accept it as a great and splendid task.
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I enjoy practicing law too much to even contemplate retiring, but I often think about engaging in serious study of the history of art, of the intricacies of classical music. I could write a fugue, or perhaps learn to play the cello.
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Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.
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High achievers, we imagine, were wired for greatness from birth. But then you have to wonder why, over time, natural talent seems to ignite in some people and dim in others.
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As a man, it is true that I will never know what it is like to be a woman. As an organizational psychologist, though, I feel a responsibility to bring evidence to bear on dynamics of work life that affect all of us, not only half of us.
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Cities around the United States do not have land use planning like we have in Oregon, and they are all struggling with issues like affordable housing.
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Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators have a constitutional duty to advise and consent to the appointment of all Cabinet officials. They should take that duty seriously.
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I mean, part of me would love to be a fat tenured professor of theater someday.
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Your yes means nothing if you can't say no.
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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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I never thought I would start working again, and I did, but it was really hard, and I don't know that I would advise anyone to step back the way I did.
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I have been using delay and reverberation since the middle 1960s. I use them to make what is almost inaudible to the ear, audible. I do not use them to play loudly but to make the higher harmonics heard.
