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Joseph Jarman

"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"People doing the kind of sound research that I'm interested in still have a difficult time."
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"Well, dojo is a traditional Japanese word for training hall."
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"People call to keep me abreast of what's going on."
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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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"We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that."
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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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"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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"You know, face painting in non-Western cultures is a sign of collectivism, is a sign of one representing the community, it's not unique at all."
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