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Joseph Jarman

"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 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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"A song is anything that can walk by itself."

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"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."

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"All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago."

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"This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway."

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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

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"Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth."

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"A tapping foot isn't the best a listener can get from a song: A good song makes a listener dance. A great song makes him think."

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"I don't use old music."

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"Both parents were very encouraging - especially my father. My father thought the sun rose and set with me. Neither one had a musical background or any musical talent. They liked classical music, but neither could carry a tune."

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"All my songs are where I am."

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"You know, Equal Interest played at the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival Awards and not one musician from that category was even thought of. Even thought of! The idea, that here's this vital energy, and that element doesn't even know it exists!"
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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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"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."
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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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"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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"Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression."
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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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"Well, actually, I don't consider myself a jazz legend or anything."
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"I've been fortunate in that I've been forced to move from zone to zone."
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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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