Bill Dixon Quotes

For me, personally, the value of a film is not determined by a review, but the health of the film is.

You've just got to believe that people will see and appreciate the value in the music and the artistry that we bring when they hear it.

Having played with other musicians, I don't even think The Beatles were that good.

I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever.

I think that most people really know if it's a really great album.

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other, like your work is worse than others and that's not fair. How can you tell what's best and what's worst from these awards? We're talking about art.

Great music is great music. It doesn't matter what genre it belongs.

It's easy in music to tell what's good. It's hard to tell what's bad.

Art is good but it isn't the best.

Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.

If your choice enters into it, then taste is involved - bad taste, good taste, uninteresting taste. Taste is the enemy of art, A-R-T.

I think hopefully we've got enough brain cells left to decide if our music is really worth something.

It's not a science when you are judging art, but we'd be remiss to say you can't look at something and say, 'This is more well done than that.'

I'm not a culture snob. So while, of course, I think the Mozart 'Requiem' or, say, Beethoven's 'Ninth' are some of the greatest works of art in the history of humankind, that's not to say the Beatles or Queen or Simon and Garfunkel aren't brilliant, beautiful, important works of art that should be sung without a sense of irony.

There is some brilliant pop music and some very poor classical music. And why shouldn't comedy be treated as seriously as drama?

How can we say any one actor's work was better than another's?

If you do a brilliant work and if the audience don't like it, what's the point.

Music is music and there are only two types: good and bad.

You hear what Thug says in his songs - the musical level of it is so crazy that it doesn't register with some people, so they call it trash. But anybody who loves music can appreciate what he's doing.

Art is subjective and, as an artiste, if our artistic work is not appreciated by the majority, it hurts.

In music, you can't really tell who's better.

Even if virtually anything can be art, there are levels of quality.

It's difficult to see how it's possible to become immensely valuable by singing what are the most hideous songs.

The music is all we care about -- so if that's bad, then we're bad.