Joseph Jarman Quotes

• 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

  Missing You, Live Concerts, Important

  Interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. October 1999.

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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

  Sound, Asian, African Music

  Interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. October 1999.

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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

  Unique, Community, Western Culture

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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

  Art, Numbers, Long

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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

  Art, Buddhist, Practice

  Interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. October 1999.

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• Well, dojo is a traditional Japanese word for training hall.

  Joseph Jarman

  Training, Dojo, Wells

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• We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that.

  Joseph Jarman

  Art, Calling, Performance Art

  Interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. October 1999.

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• The Vision Festival was packed every night, always has been for the four years it's been happening.

  Joseph Jarman

  Night, Years, Vision

  Interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. October 1999.

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• People doing the kind of sound research that I'm interested in still have a difficult time.

  Joseph Jarman

  People, Sound, Research

  Interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. October 1999.

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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

  Growing Up, Years, People

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• It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble.

  Joseph Jarman

  Art, Long, Decision

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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

  Responsibility, Vision, Done

  Interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. October 1999.

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• I've been fortunate in that I've been forced to move from zone to zone.

  Joseph Jarman

  Moving, Fortunate, Zone

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• Well, actually, I don't consider myself a jazz legend or anything.

  Joseph Jarman

  Legends, Jazz, Wells

  interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. October 1999.

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• People call to keep me abreast of what's going on.

  Joseph Jarman

  People, Never Quit, Quitting

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