"For the most basic assumption that dictated my……" — Anthony Braxton
"For the most basic assumption that dictated my early attempts to respond to creative music commentary was the mistaken belief that western journalists had some fundamental understanding of black creativity—or even western creativity—but this assumption was seriously in error."
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Anthony Braxton
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18 Quotes by Anthony Braxton
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...I have great hopes for the possibility of a dynamic universalism that respects all our people.
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I am interested in the study of music and the discipline of music and the experience of music and music…
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I know I’m an African-American, and I know I play the saxophone, but I’m not a jazz musician. I’m not…
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Is jazz a rhythm, or is it a vibration?
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There is more to creative mastership than the surface of satisfaction and political certainty. The music of Joe Fonda is…
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I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.
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Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European…
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The word music is a convenient way to talk about what I'm interested in, but actually, in some ways, it's…
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Everybody in America is angry about something.
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Growing up in the '50s and being in the '60s, in that revolutionary time space, I thought freedom was what…
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I had never thought that I would be involved in narrative structures. As a young guy, I was more interested…
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I have learned through time that not everyone is interested in the kinds of things that fascinate me.
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The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.
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Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many…
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The bad-boy label is just an assumption.
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As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song,…
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History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.
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Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile,…
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The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of…
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