"Now, one can often get away with playing……" — Albert Murray
"Now, one can often get away with playing music by ear when it is not being recorded, but writing is another matter; its mistakes are not forgotten because they are still there to confuse us."
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Albert Murray
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11 Quotes by Albert Murray
Albert Murray has 11 quotes on this site.
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The United States is not a nation of black and white people. Any fool can see that white people are…
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I am not an African. I am an American.
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When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the…
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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.
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As any competent student of literary composition knows, the more natural and casual a voice sounds in print, the more…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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The improvisational nature of jazz musicianship is such that a truly competent performer must be prepared to function as an…
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The juke joint, the honky tonk, and the ballroom also represent one more thing, anthropologically speaking: a ceremonial context for…
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Facts are of not much use, considered as facts. They bewilder by their number and their apparent incoherency. Let them…
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A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic…
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The real slums are another matter. The bad parts of Tondo are as bad as any place I've seen, ancient,…
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Being interested in a woman is quite another matter from being in love with one.
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Elegance is like manners. You can’t be polite only on Wednesday or Thursday. If you are elegant, you should be…
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As the tide of feminism that crested two decades ago recedes and the old advance-and-retreat games of courtship return, "Pride…
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All people are special, and all moments are golden. There is no person and there is no time more special…
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