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"Well, remember that we were all members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians."
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"You can have all sorts of relationships, but there's something with musicians working together where you can have relationship that can just continue to grow in a beautiful way."
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"Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts."
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"I feel really different from other musicians."
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"I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not."
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"What I try to do is produce an atmosphere where musicians want to invest in what they do and give to the recording. I hire those musicians who I know will play something creative and interesting."
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"Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it."
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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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"Musicians don't respect a lot of the stuff that is on TRL and a lot of musicians think that stuff on the radio is not good musically so when musicians say that they like us it obviously feels good."
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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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"We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour."
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"Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression."
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"The Vision Festival was packed every night, always has been for the four years it's been happening."
Vision
"People doing the kind of sound research that I'm interested in still have a difficult time."
Time
"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."
People
"People call to keep me abreast of what's going on."
People
"We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that."
Art
"It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble."
Art
"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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"Well, remember that we were all members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians."
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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."
Compassion
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