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Joseph Jarman

"It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble."

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"I live, love and loathe my characters. They stole my mind. They stole my heart."

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"Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes."

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"Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?"

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"Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions."

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"Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first."

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"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."

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"Create with the heart, build with the mind."

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"If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle."

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"And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art."

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"To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it."

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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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