Bill Dixon quote: "The Canadians, by the paucity of invitations that have been extended to me to do things there, have obviously never been that enamored with my work."

Fear is the biggest motivator.
BILL DIXON

I think people who sample are cheating. It is like people who do collages. Use all of your own stuff...
BILL DIXON

Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematical...
BILL DIXON

I have been going to Italy since 1980, but I always went to do work. I did not live overseas, becaus...
BILL DIXON

I do not, as a rule, do encores. When I have finished playing, I have indeed finished playing. I hav...
BILL DIXON

We're at bare bone now. There is no fat here, ... There has never been any fat here.
BILL DIXON

If you think about it, $100,000 in terms of a recording is not a lot of money. For musicians who are...
BILL DIXON

There was a bunch of rockets and stuff, like toy rockets, models and stuff like that.
BILL DIXON

I have no distributor... it is indicative to me that there are these pockets of players and collecto...
BILL DIXON

I have hundreds of hours of this music on tape performed by orchestras at the college that, as I sai...
BILL DIXON

The bass provides a sort of liquid foundational formation that does not gravitationally tie you down...
BILL DIXON

I am not interested in petty gossip; I am not interested in who sells the most records and the polit...
BILL DIXON

Rock musicians, and a vast array of popular-music musicians, due to their wealth, acquired through t...
BILL DIXON

Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations. I have not released large orche...
BILL DIXON

I come from a generation where the dreams and aspirations of a whole lot of young men were sacrifice...
BILL DIXON

Interested listeners have only to hear the recording to find out if those guys, who go to such pains...
BILL DIXON

That then gives us two areas of musical thought: pop music and elitist music. Isn't there room for a...
BILL DIXON

When it comes to this music, it just seems to be a foregone conclusion that there is going to be som...
BILL DIXON

If, when making reference to a larger musical grouping, you say orchestra, you can readily expect th...
BILL DIXON

My career has been different from most people, but I knew what I was not going to do. I knew I was n...
BILL DIXON

When Coltrane died, a void appeared in this music that has not been filled yet. He maintained a forw...
BILL DIXON

If you are you, 24 hours a day, then you do not have to remember who you are supposed to be in diffe...
BILL DIXON

If musicians don't do any music, then there isn't any music. Musicians are very tricky and can be qu...
BILL DIXON

Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematical...
BILL DIXON

The magic of playing has to do with how much everyone wants it to succeed. If you have five players ...
BILL DIXON

Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations. I have not released large orche...
BILL DIXON

If I produce it, I will stage it as a performance. A small audience will be invited; rehearsals of t...
BILL DIXON

In the middle 1940s... I heard everyone live. Painting, the theater; everything was happening. It wa...
BILL DIXON

Whatever I do, I attempt to do it fully. I try, and don't always succeed, to be thorough. There ...
BILL DIXON

If I had money, I would like to get an old building, have music performances, do lithographs, have s...
BILL DIXON

I have been using delay and reverberation since the middle 1960s. I use them to make what is almost ...
BILL DIXON

While everyone has a right to his or her opinion, the people who are informed have more of a right.
BILL DIXON

You just try to absorb as much as you can from someone who has won as many races and championships a...
LARRY DIXON

You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are al...
LARRY DIXON

Time will tell how you rate against the rest of the competition. I'll let everyone else worry ab...
LARRY DIXON

The same things we've done the past couple of seasons. We've worked on the engine and clutch...
LARRY DIXON

The championship always goes to the team that wins the most rounds and is the most prepared. I think...
LARRY DIXON

I don't think I ever set my goals that high. As a kid growing up I just wanted an opportunity to...
LARRY DIXON

Because we're sponsored by competing breweries there is always competition. When we were both fi...
LARRY DIXON

The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or ...
LARRY DIXON

I never thought I'd live this long. It sounds funny because I still think of myself as a kid.
LARRY DIXON

I don't think there is anything owed to us. You've got to go out and work hard for every rou...
LARRY DIXON

If two people were exactly alike, one of them would be unnecessary.
LARRY DIXON

I think it's an extremely important factor to have your team together. It goes back to having di...
LARRY DIXON

When you've been driving in the top category for 10 years, you're obviously not a kid any mo...
LARRY DIXON

Snake has been everything to me. Look at where I was when I started with the company in 1988 and whe...
LARRY DIXON

Being happy is very important. We won our second championship last season and we have our entire tea...
LARRY DIXON

We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.
LARRY DIXON

But since we've been fighting for first or second place, it's grabbed the media's attent...
LARRY DIXON

Winning teams have the least amount of distractions. They have a really tight group of people workin...
LARRY DIXON

It's so difficult. Sometimes if I have dessert, I think, 'Well, I blew it.' That's s...
DONNA DIXON

It is criminal that the Democratic elected officials allowed this country to invade Iraq, and it is ...
AARON DIXON

Maria pays such little attention to issues affecting the black community. She's coming in here with ...
AARON DIXON

I do not look at myself as a spoiler.
AARON DIXON

The people are tired and they want change.
AARON DIXON

You can't do everything but you can do something!
JEFF DIXON

Politic is going to be diluted down into a ten second window, where you whack the guy as hard as you...
ALAN DIXON

If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.
JACK DIXON

I love Nautilus and stretching. The results are immediate, and that gives me the motivation to conti...
DONNA DIXON

Truman was mentioned as having stellar programs in two of those areas, one of them was the undergrad...
BARBARA DIXON

We had anticipated when we were working on that document that what was going to happen was there was...
BARBARA DIXON

It's an unbelievable market. I've had sellers call and say they want to double the asking rice for t...
BARBARA DIXON

I didn't want to be pressured. Everybody wanted to hear the news. They were tired of waiting. But yo...
ANTHONY DIXON

Before I committed, I wanted to make sure when the initial high went down, it was still going to be ...
ANTHONY DIXON

I had been leaning to Mississippi State for a (while). I was going to give every team a chance to ma...
ANTHONY DIXON

I read the paper one morning after Eason committed that they (Eason and Derrick Davis) were going to...
ANTHONY DIXON

How much trouble you've ever been in is something schools are looking closer at now. But they don't ...
ANTHONY DIXON

The timing was really unfortunate, because the cold weather moved in. And when you have snow and ice...
ALICIA DIXON

We've got maybe a few hundred (without gas) scattered in the two communities. Providing we can have ...
ALICIA DIXON

We just track the market very closely. We don't have a magic formula. It's not a science. We just tr...
ALICIA DIXON

We are able to lower the gas cost significantly because wholesale prices have been coming down.
ALICIA DIXON

We do know it will go down. We just don't know how much at this point.
ALICIA DIXON

It's certainly been a unique situation.
ALICIA DIXON

(The customer charge and base amount) are fixed costs that we are required to collect money on for r...
ALICIA DIXON

The average residential customer can be seeing bills 50 percent or more higher.
ALICIA DIXON

We had two back-to-back hurricanes and then Wilma happened as well, knocking out much of the Gulf of...
ALICIA DIXON

It does look like, based on his particular history, that he has never used this much natural gas, so...
ALICIA DIXON

Mama will be pleased to know that her least favourite daughter is to be married."
"To her leas...
P.O. DIXON

Taco John's continues to stay tuned into what our customers crave. Steak is a premium choice that ma...
BRIAN DIXON

There [are] tons of debris down there, the likes of which have never been seen. To maintain safety, ...
BRIAN DIXON

We've stopped putting water on them and there is no smoking.
BRIAN DIXON

There (are) tons of debris down there, the likes of which have never been seen. To maintain safety, ...
BRIAN DIXON

We used to have to do a lot of hiking to get to our avalanche control routes. And it didn't increase...
BOB DIXON

We have ideal dreams about educating people.
BOB DIXON

This is a crisis for me. I am on a fixed income.
BOB DIXON

I can confirm I am retiring effective Sept. 9,
BOB DIXON

I think that was a contribution to the community, an enlightening cultural exchange,
BOB DIXON

To capture the sounds audiophiles expect with HDTV, clarity is key: Experience has shown me that to ...
BOB DIXON

I've had 25 memorable years, really and truly, ... I'm really going to miss the newsroom - it's so l...
BOB DIXON

We tried to play a little too fast. We didn't want to let the crowd down. We rushed things and took ...
BOBBY DIXON

Coming from where I come from, I feel like I've got to do everything right. There's no shortcut for ...
BOBBY DIXON

While I was in jail, I was so mad at myself and so frustrated about my situation and how I let mysel...
BOBBY DIXON

I thought my whole life was over.
BOBBY DIXON

It would have given us confidence if we had won. But we lost, so that's the main thing. We can't wor...
BOBBY DIXON

We're looking forward to it. We're just going out there, trying to get better every night.
BOBBY DIXON

He's married to that right wing.
BOBBY DIXON

We just stuck together. We were all struggling really to live and survive and eat. I was more the pe...
BOBBY DIXON

It takes a dunk for Sammy to get going.
BOBBY DIXON

We've got to start going inside with the ball. We're a perimeter team that shoots a lot of perimeter...
BOBBY DIXON

It is your people who make the ultimate difference. You put the investment into training the people...
PHIL DIXON

It is your people who make the ultimate difference. You put the investment into training the people ...
PHIL DIXON

We sing that old hymn 'What a Friend We Have in Jesus,' but we don't really relate to Him.
JIM DIXON

We believe this compelling valuation offsets very real concerns about management's ability to develo...
CHRISTOPHER DIXON

We've always played three guards in certain instances over the years. A number of programs do that. ...
JAMIE DIXON

The net result is to create a smaller, faster-growing entity that is now superbly positioned to bene...
CHRISTOPHER DIXON

I think it is very prudent to make sure your baggage is locked.
GEOFF DIXON

There is a 60-percent likelihood of this scenario.
CHRISTOPHER DIXON

Keith penetrated and got to the basket very well. Defensively, he made them earn their points, force...
JAMIE DIXON

It's not just economically. The whole fabric and tenor of their lives is different.
KEN DIXON

Baron is one of the better guards in the league. He is probably one of the top three point guards. H...
JUAN DIXON

It feels good going into each and every game knowing when you are going into the game, ... I know he...
JUAN DIXON

Nah, it's just another game. I mean, yeah, I'm going back to play against my old team, but there are...
JUAN DIXON

The coaching staff has done a great job with us. We are playing great basketball. We're playing well...
JUAN DIXON

We've struggled the last six games not getting any wins, so we wanted to come out with a lot of hear...
JUAN DIXON

I think guys are learning defensive principles and where they're supposed to be on the basketball co...
JUAN DIXON

It's tough to lose a game when you shoot 74 percent in the second half. We have to be better defensi...
JAMIE DIXON

More time does not in itself fix the problem. But it gives us the instructional time we need to impl...
AMBER DIXON

We recognize that the most important job we have in front of us is to make sure our seventh- and eig...
AMBER DIXON

We should be the first stop when you are trying to better manage or grow your business. If you are a...
AL DIXON

We know it's hard to be a master of everything. In running a business, there are a lot of things out...
AL DIXON

It was a very short conversation. Basically they left.
AL DIXON

What fraternities and sororities are about is to be there to give people that helping hand, especial...
ALEXANDREENA DIXON

I got up there. I did it and I'm like I shocked myself. So I'm loving the art. I buy books abo...
ALEXANDREENA DIXON

We are in a period of increased volatility in resource stocks, mainly because commodity prices are a...
ADAM DIXON

The buyback program is quite solid and it is spread over an extended period.
ADAM DIXON

The market may be a little disappointed by the 2007 number. The headline number looks okay, but I wo...
ADAM DIXON

I remember some nights it would be 10 o'clock at night and we'd get phone calls from our neighbors, ...
JIM DIXON

There were no problems to solve,
CHRIS DIXON

There were no problems to solve. Mr. Ovitz had a hard time trying to find a place to fit.
CHRIS DIXON

I don't know what their excuse is except to be there to create a nuisance.
GRAHAM DIXON

I want to win a championship and to win the Indy 500 makes me want it so much more.
SCOTT DIXON

We came out of the gate and executed throughout. We didn't have a lot of time to practice for Syracu...
JAMIE DIXON

Rebounding is our biggest fundamental. It's our biggest emphasis. We didn't get it done against DePa...
JAMIE DIXON

I've had that first-test question about eight different times. It seems like it's not a test once yo...
JAMIE DIXON

Their shots were deep, and oftentimes we had a hand in their face. Our guys made plays and there wer...
JAMIE DIXON

He's better in every area. Carl's comfortable in his position and understanding of our system. That'...
JAMIE DIXON

This was a great win for us. I think we were anxious at first and rushed a bit. But we calmed down a...
JAMIE DIXON

The quality of teams in this league is outstanding. It's the best conference in the country. No one ...
JAMIE DIXON

He is a proven player who has performed at a high level.
JAMIE DIXON

Carl has done everything he's needed to do academically,
JAMIE DIXON

Our family thanks everyone for their support and prayers and asks for their continued respect and pr...
JAMIE DIXON

On the face of it, Fox [Entertainment Group's] ownership of the Los Angeles Dodgers is not an enormo...
CHRISTOPHER DIXON

He's around the twist,' said Azalea. 'Breaking all the windows? He's mad.'
'Ah, no,' said the K...
HEATHER DIXON

Mr. Bradford," she said. "I'm not going to propose to you."

The twinkle in Mr. Bradford's...
HEATHER DIXON

You forgot my birthday, too."

"And mine."

The girls looked miserable. The King...
HEATHER DIXON

would like to extend a helping hand to any displaced students who may wish to enroll in our institut...
BARBARA DIXON

Some of the criteria that is used is the comparisons are potential rate of your freshmen and sophomo...
BARBARA DIXON

I think that being ranked nine years in a row helps us get our name out and lets other people know t...
BARBARA DIXON

Truman University was also ranked No. 8 in the Midwest among all private and public institutions.
BARBARA DIXON

We don't strive to achieve the ranking. I think the values that we hold, and the way in which we del...
BARBARA DIXON

What they knew was, if they wanted to eat, this was a way to do it.
BARBARA DIXON

A lot of the girls were traumatized by war as well as abuse,
BARBARA DIXON

[When Annan said in the 2004 letter that employees should not be afraid to disclose unethical behavi...
BARBARA DIXON

We just wanted to get a head start this year.
ANNE DIXON

We were able to take everything to the town storage and put it in one small room.
ANNE DIXON

People don't have any idea how much goes into putting (decorations) up and taking them down.
ANNE DIXON

The ones that are calling me, the tax deduction doesn't really matter to them. You can't really judg...
RICHARD DIXON

We knew what they want to do and how good they are off the dribble. They make tough shots and, when ...
JAMIE DIXON

Based on the fact that (the network has) a highly targeted demographic, that's not an unreasonable p...
CHRISTOPHER DIXON

We had brake issues to start with, then a gearbox, then brakes again. Then we had some engine belts ...
SCOTT DIXON

We're both kind of swift, we're kind of the same.
TONY DIXON

Her facial features are perfectly portioned.
SHEILAH DIXON

Somewhere between 300 and 500 people came away with tattoos from here last year. The average price w...
BEN DIXON

You'll be seeing something out of the ordinary. No matter what you're into or what you're like, you'...
BEN DIXON

A sale of the hotels would highlight the value of Ladbrokes.
BARRY DIXON

Regardless of whether Ladbrokes is bid for, we believe that the current actions of management in dis...
BARRY DIXON

I kept telling my team since we played Gateway in the opening game that Mike Ricci is going to have ...
BYRON DIXON

These proteins mimic known host proteins in the cell in a very interesting way.
JACK DIXON

was alone at the time that we arrested him.
STEVE DIXON

When he drove there, he went up to the house, spent 12, 13 minutes in the house when no one was home...
STEVE DIXON

We'll pulling out all the stops,
STEVE DIXON

We picked a hardworking management team that has a lot of energy, and they are already out there wor...
STEVE DIXON

This is a great area, ... We seem to have a really young work force around here, and we’ve gotten ...
STEVE DIXON

When my delegate Jeff Frederick, talks about holding the line on taxes, what he's really talking abo...
STEVE DIXON

If you’re using the same filter, you’re going to get a lot of the same byproducts at the end,
STEVE DIXON

It's a very good piece of evidence,
STEVE DIXON

This little girl ... came home from school, and a minute later he went back to the house,
STEVE DIXON

This grant will enable the school system to help even more of the children in Bristol by strengtheni...
STEVE DIXON

The child may have been eating an apple or had apple [scent] on his hands.
JULIA DIXON

Down with tyranny!' Bramble cried. 'Aristocracy! Autocracy! Monocracy! Other ocracy things! You are ...
HEATHER DIXON

We've got to defend and guard the perimeter. There's no secret there. Everybody knows that.
JAMIE DIXON

She looked at him, his soft brown eyes and tall form, and contemplated raising herself on her toes a...
HEATHER DIXON

I noticed I had developed a fantasy about myself as a writer as opposed to actually doing it [so] I ...
LESLIE DIXON

He was getting some shots, but the thing I noticed was he finished a few of them around the glass.
JAMIE DIXON

Jenna was just looking for regional qualifying times. She's concentrating on the 50-yard freestyle t...
HELEN DIXON

They did have a family dog.
KELLY DIXON

Most of what we're finding (is) smaller than a dime. We're trying to say something deep and meaningf...
KELLY DIXON

It has been an oversimplified tale.
KELLY DIXON

So that may have accounted for some of their problems.
KELLY DIXON

He was shockingly easy to follow. The pressure of his hand, the step of his foot, the angle of his f...
HEATHER DIXON

I was confident we could hold them off before the yellow, but wasn't sure about the restart. We got ...
SCOTT DIXON

We're kind of blase about 'just ride the bus,' but you don't realize how tough it is. It's quite a t...
KEN DIXON

I told them that they did a really good job of executing our game plan for about 20 minutes. We have...
MAGGIE DIXON

It will be tailored to their needs.
CHUCK DIXON

When you look at the stronger (applications), they are very, very descriptive in what they're doing....
MICHAEL DIXON

The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clut...
MACNEILE DIXON

This is a complicated transaction. It's in response to the Justice Department's concerns.
CHRISTOPHER DIXON

These companies can tap into the need for marketers to use the Internet as an appropriate marketing ...
CHRIS DIXON

We will not tolerate looting, zero tolerance, zero. We will have night vision capability,
DON DIXON

The Canadians, by the paucity of invitations that have been extended to me to do things there, have obviously never been that enamored with my work.

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The Canadians, by the paucity of invitations that have been extended to me to do things there, have obviously never been that enamored with my work.

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