Joseph Jarman famous 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 #Important #Accepted

People call to keep me abreast of what's going on.
-- Joseph Jarman

#People #Never Quit #Quitting

Well, dojo is a traditional Japanese word for training hall.
-- Joseph Jarman

#Training #Dojo #Wells

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

#Art #Calling #Performances

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

#Night #Years #Vision

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

#People #Sound #Research

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

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

#Art #Long #Decision

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

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 #Limits

I've been fortunate in that I've been forced to move from zone to zone.
-- Joseph Jarman

#Moving #Zone

Well, actually, I don't consider myself a jazz legend or anything.
-- Joseph Jarman

#Legends #Jazz #Wells

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