"Today, music is visual." — Archie Shepp

Today, music is visual. - Archie Shepp

"Today, music is visual."

— Archie Shepp

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17 Quotes by Archie Shepp

Archie Shepp has 17 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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

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More Music Quotes

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I love recording music. — J. J. Abrams
Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle. — Billie Joe Armstrong
What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music,… — Billie Joe Armstrong
I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to… — Billie Joe Armstrong
Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no… — Billie Joe Armstrong
For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. — Louis Armstrong
All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
What we play is life. — Louis Armstrong
If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. — Louis Armstrong
We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself. — Louis Armstrong

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