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> [As any competent student of literary composition knows, the more natural and casual a voice sounds in print, the more likely it is to have been edited time and again.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-murray/as-any-competent-student-of-literary-composition-knows-the-more/)

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## More by Albert Murray

> [The United States is not a nation of black and white people. Any fool can see that white people are not really white, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-murray/the-united-states-is-not-a-nation-of-black-and-white-people-any-fool/)

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> [Now, one can often get away with playing music by ear when it is not being recorded, but writing is another matter; its mistakes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-murray/now-one-can-often-get-away-with-playing-music-by-ear-when-it-is-not/)

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> [The juke joint, the honky tonk, and the ballroom also represent one more thing, anthropologically speaking: a ceremonial context for the male-with-female-duet dance flirtation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-murray/the-juke-joint-the-honky-tonk-and-the-ballroom-also-represent-one/)

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> [A jazz tune, melody, or composition is usually based on either a traditional twelve-bar, eight-bar, or four-bar blues chorus or on the thirty-two-bar chorus…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-murray/a-jazz-tune-melody-or-composition-is-usually-based-on-either-a/)

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> [I am not an African. I am an American.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-murray/i-am-not-an-african-i-am-an-american/)

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> [The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-murray/the-blues-is-not-the-creation-of-a-crushed-spirited-people-it-is-the/)

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> [When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-murray/when-the-negro-musician-or-dancer-swings-the-blues-he-is-fulfilling/)

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> [Effective stream-of-consciousness narration is the product of verbal precision, not just of literal documentation. It is decidedly not a matter of unedited free-association.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-murray/effective-stream-of-consciousness-narration-is-the-product-of-verbal/)

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> [If it is properly done, the 'as told to' autobiography represents how the subject wants his story told.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-murray/if-it-is-properly-done-the-as-told-to-autobiography-represents-how/)

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> [As any competent student of literary composition knows, the more natural and casual a voice sounds in print, the more likely it is to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-murray/as-any-competent-student-of-literary-composition-knows-the-more/)

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> [Jazz music, as is also the case with the old down-home spirituals, gospel and jubilee songs, jumps, shouts and moans, is essentially an American…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-murray/jazz-music-as-is-also-the-case-with-the-old-down-home-spirituals/)

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> [The improvisational nature of jazz musicianship is such that a truly competent performer must be prepared to function as an on-the-spot composer who is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-murray/the-improvisational-nature-of-jazz-musicianship-is-such-that-a-truly/)

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