"All the tenets that I had grown up……" — Archie Shepp

"All the tenets that I had grown up with were thrown out the window."

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17 Quotes by Archie Shepp

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I find that here in the States, audiences are generally less knowledgeable, from the cognitive point of view, though they…
I can't see any separation between my music and my life. I play pretty much race music: its about what…
In America, for a brief time, people who followed John Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last…
So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a…
And when I met Cecil Taylor it was a complete transformation of musical identities. All the tenets that I had…
So, rap has that quality, for youth anyway; it's a kind of blues element. It's physical, almost gymnastic. It speaks…
Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response.
You get a show where people are jumping up and dancing, but it's not a critical event in the sense…
To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material.…
Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the…
It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establishment was turned on by the…
In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the…

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