Joseph Jarman Quotes
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But back to your question, it was a wonderful experience with the Art Ensemble, and I keep in contact and sort of follow what's going on, but it was also very important to make this step, you may say this leap of faith.
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I hadn't been practicing or playing or anything. But that had been a vital part of my life.
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I've been fortunate in that I've been forced to move from zone to zone.
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I've been informed by both sides, jazz, western music, Asian music, African music, all sides, because I've been interested in the sound of the universe, and that sound is without limit.
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In fact, since no one's been interested in my work, I took the responsibility recently to invest in my own work, so I'm producing a concert that was done at the Vision Festival in May.
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It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble.
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Lotta people don't realize when you grow up with people, you have an affinity, a relationship you don't get with anyone else. After you're twenty years old, anyone you meet after that, it's different from the people you knew before.
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Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression.
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People call to keep me abreast of what's going on.
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People doing the kind of sound research that I'm interested in still have a difficult time.
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So all of the music had reference, or is inspired by something of the dharma that I've come in contact with.
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So okay, I accepted, and I realized while working for that concert that I'd been missing something very important and vital to me, and that something was music.
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So, immediately after that, I got a commission to write a piece for chamber orchestra, and in working on the material I discovered it was possible to incorporate the Buddhist teachings into the music, so that's what I started to do.
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The Vision Festival was packed every night, always has been for the four years it's been happening.
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We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that.
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Well, actually, I don't consider myself a jazz legend or anything.
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Well, by the end of the millennium, five, six months from now, we hope to somehow manage to move into a new location where we have the whole building, so we can devote space to all our activities.
[Activities]
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Well, dojo is a traditional Japanese word for training hall.
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Well, remember that we were all members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.
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When Christopher and Charles passed away, I was completely depressed, I felt rejected and real down, and so Roscoe invited me because he had this spirit of compassion, and we had gone to school together, were friends and everything.
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