46 Quotes by Bill Dixon

There was a bunch of rockets and stuff, like toy rockets, models and stuff like that.

Originally I was asked to do something with the very talented percussionist Susie Ibarra, but I had to decline since I am not involved in the women's movement in music.

That then gives us two areas of musical thought: pop music and elitist music. Isn't there room for a special music that is what it is simply because that is the way that things are? There is always going to be different forms of music. I do not think we should put down rap music and things like that. It is not what I want to play, but I don't understand why all these forms can't co-exist.

The next Charlie Parker is out there somewhere. He is not in one of these schools. He is not getting any of these grants. This music desperately needs to be subsidized so that the people who are trying to do something and have no access can have access to something. I was on one of the National Endowment Panels some years ago and it was an eye-opener to actually witness the selection process in operation.

The bass provides a sort of liquid foundational formation that does not gravitationally tie you down. It is good at revealing and highlighting a certain harmonic pinpoint when one is either being looked for or needed.

I walked up on a pipe that had two end caps on it. It looked like a pipe bomb to me, so I told the officers, they called the bomb and arson squad out, and they just detonated it and it was an explosive device.

It went pretty good. They seemed more than willing to try to work with the neighborhood to accommodate everybody.

The Canadians, by the paucity of invitations that have been extended to me to do things there, have obviously never been that enamored with my work.

In certain areas of this music, especially since the 1960s - and that is no coincidence - certain people have been singled out for attention and the others have been totally ignored to the extent that the interested music public has been made to believe that they no longer exist.