Joseph Jarman Quotations

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.