Quotes by Joseph Jarman - Page 1

People call to keep me abreast of what's going on.
Joseph Jarman / Musician
Never Quit
People
Quitting
Me Keep People
Abreast
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Well, dojo is a traditional Japanese word for training hall.
Joseph Jarman / Musician
Dojo
Traditional
Training
Wells
Hall
Japanese
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Well, actually, I don't consider myself a jazz legend or anything.
Joseph Jarman / Musician
Jazz
Legends
Wells
Legend
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I've been fortunate in that I've been forced to move from zone to zone.
Joseph Jarman / Musician
Fortunate
Moving
Zone
Forced
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We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that.
Joseph Jarman / Musician
Art
Calling
Performance Art
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It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble.
Joseph Jarman / Musician
Art
Decision
Ensemble
Long
Art Time Long
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People doing the kind of sound research that I'm interested in still have a difficult time.
Joseph Jarman / Musician
People
Research
Sound
Difficult Time
Time Research People
Time Difficult People
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I hadn't been practicing or playing or anything. But that had been a vital part of my life.
Joseph Jarman / Musician
Life My Life Anything
Vital
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To be here drinking a Coke can influence the process of musical creation as much as anything.
Joseph Jarman / Musician
Coke
Creation
Drinking
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The Vision Festival was packed every night, always has been for the four years it's been happening.
Joseph Jarman / Musician
Every Night
Night
Vision
Years
Festival
Happening
Packed
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Well, remember that we were all members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.
Joseph Jarman / Musician
Advancement
Association
Members
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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.
Joseph Jarman / Musician
Contact
Dharma
Reference
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Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression.
Joseph Jarman / Musician
Validity
Intellectually
Separates
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In 1993, I retired from the Art Ensemble of Chicago to devote myself full time to Buddhist studies and to the practice of Aikido.
Joseph Jarman / Musician
Art
Buddhist
Practice
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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.
Joseph Jarman / Musician
Collectivism
Community
Representing
Unique
Western Culture
Cultures
Sign
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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.
Joseph Jarman / Musician
Accepted
Important
Live Concerts
Missing
Missing You
Okay
Music Me Important
Concert
Realized
Vital
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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.
Joseph Jarman / Musician
Done
Responsibility
Vision
Invest
Concert
Festival
Producing
Recently
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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.
Joseph Jarman / Musician
African Music
Asian
Both Sides
Jazz
Sides
Sound
Western
African
Informed
Limit
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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.
Joseph Jarman / Musician
Location
Manage
Millennium
Activities
Devote
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In our eyes, heroes, gods, masters do not exist. We love and respect every musician, whether from the past, the future, or... someone who doesn't yet exist... just as much as birdsong interests us.
Joseph Jarman / Musician
Masters
Just As Much
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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.
Joseph Jarman / Musician
Contact
Ensemble
Leap
Leap Of Faith
Wonderful Experience
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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.
Joseph Jarman / Musician
Affinity
Growing Up
People
Years
Anyone Else
Grow Up
Twenty
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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.
Joseph Jarman / Musician
Compassion
Invited
Rejected
Charles
Christopher
Depressed
Passed
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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.
Joseph Jarman / Musician
Chamber
Orchestra
Commission
Discovered
Immediately
Incorporate
Material
Piece
Teachings
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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!
Joseph Jarman / Musician
Awards
Equal
Jazz
Musician
Category
Atlantic
Bell
Element
Exists
Festival
Vital
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It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble. But it seemed more important to me to share the vitality of Aikido and the vitality of Zen training with people, even though it would be a smaller number of people, it seemed to give them something that could last and improve their lives.
Joseph Jarman / Musician
Art
Long
Numbers
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