"Yes, the audience is so important to Negro……" — Archie Shepp
"Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response."
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17 Quotes by Archie Shepp
Archie Shepp has 17 quotes on this site.
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All the tenets that I had grown up with were thrown out the window.
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I find that here in the States, audiences are generally less knowledgeable, from the cognitive point of view, though they…
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I can't see any separation between my music and my life. I play pretty much race music: its about what…
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In America, for a brief time, people who followed John Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last…
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So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a…
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And when I met Cecil Taylor it was a complete transformation of musical identities. All the tenets that I had…
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So, rap has that quality, for youth anyway; it's a kind of blues element. It's physical, almost gymnastic. It speaks…
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You get a show where people are jumping up and dancing, but it's not a critical event in the sense…
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To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material.…
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Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the…
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It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establishment was turned on by the…
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In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the…
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More Audience Quotes
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I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences.
— Dario Argento
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I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.
— J. J. Abrams
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I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out…
— Aaliyah
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Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and,…
— Rowan Atkinson
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You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering…
— Paul Auster
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If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
— Tallulah Bankhead
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I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I…
— Erykah Badu
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I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's…
— Erykah Badu
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You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into…
— Christian Bale
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I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact,…
— Lucille Ball
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I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap…
— Antonio Banderas
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I'm trying to build a strong business. I want to create new stars, new shows and new products for my…
— Tyra Banks
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