Above all else, [Benny Goodman] was a great player, one of the greatest American music has produced. He brought his absolute talent and his invincible love of music to the fore every time he played. There are many other things… — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
The extent of his influence across jazz, across American music, and around the world has such continuing stature that he is one of the few who can easily be mentioned with Stravinsky, Picasso and Joyce. His life was the embodiment… — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
I also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black novels, which was a complex love story in which… — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
Getting to the pint where the other is not the enemy is a big leap. — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are… — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm. — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
“It may sound cruel...but...what makes a criminal is a disposition toward cruelty, a laziness and impatience that lead to taking from others, and cynicism… — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and… — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
Above all else, [Benny Goodman] was a great player, one of the greatest American music has produced. He brought his absolute talent and his… — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately. — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience -… — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism. — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
I don't know any women who don't think about what they look like, and I don't know any men who don't think about what… — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us… — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
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