Joseph Jarman Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“Well, remember that we were all members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I hadn't been practicing or playing or anything. But that had been a vital part of my life.”

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

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

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

“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.”