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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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"As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher."

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"To see things as the poet sees them I must share his consciousness and not attend to it; I must look where he looks and not turn round to face him; I must make of him not a spectacle but a pair of spectacles; in fine, as Professor Alexander would say, I must enjoy him and not contemplate him."

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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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"We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"I've been fortunate in that I've been forced to move from zone to zone."
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