Bill Dixon Quotes

Bill Dixon — American Musician born on October 05, 1925,

Bill Dixon was 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... (wikipedia)

I think people who sample are cheating. It is like people who do collages. Use all of your own stuff.

I do not, as a rule, do encores. When I have finished playing, I have indeed finished playing. I have nothing left; there has been no reserve.

While everyone has a right to his or her opinion, the people who are informed have more of a right.

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.

I have been going to Italy since 1980, but I always went to do work. I did not live overseas, because I do not like running around with everything I own in a paper bag.

Bill Dixon Quotes

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