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"Well, remember that we were all members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians."
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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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"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'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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"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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"I've been fortunate in that I've been forced to move from zone to zone."
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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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"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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"Well, dojo is a traditional Japanese word for training hall."
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"Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression."
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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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"I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each."
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"Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song."
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"We spent a month in LA using a pool of musicians, a string arranger called Benjamin Wright, some great backing singers, and it gave tracks like Dynamite, which was written there, that kind of flavour."
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"I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing."
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"So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in New York City alone. In those days, if I could scrape up twenty musicians to do this it was something extraordinary."
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"I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted."
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"When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30."
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"Well, in Japan, I have got a group of musicians that I have worked with a lot, that concentrate just on the hardcore stuff, say, that Naked City has been working on. We have like a repertoire of sixty songs now."
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"There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away."
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"And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound."
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