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. Bill Dixon Read Quote
While everyone has a right to his or her opinion, the people who are informed have more of a right. Bill Dixon Read Quote
In the middle 1940s… I heard everyone live. Painting, the theater; everything was happening. It was an exciting time when New York was the place to be. Bill Dixon Read Quote
If I produce it, I will stage it as a performance. A small audience will be invited; rehearsals of the sections will be done in the mornings, and those sections will be recorded in the afternoons. Bill Dixon Read Quote
When Coltrane died, a void appeared in this music that has not been filled yet. He maintained a forward motion in his work and did not look back. Bill Dixon Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I think people who sample are cheating. It is like people who do collages. Use all of your own stuff. Bill Dixon Read Quote
My career has been different from most people, but I knew what I was not going to do. I knew I was not going to be controlled. I knew there was a price for this, but I did not know there was as large a price as it turned out to be. Bill Dixon Read Quote