Culture Quote by Archie Shepp Download Open image “Music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential.” — Archie Shepp ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Culture Existential Jazz Music
With human beings it could be argued that all music-making is, in essence, grounded in improvisation. — John Burnside Copy Share Image
I learned at a very young age that music teaches you about life. When you're in the midst of improvisation, there is no yesterday… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
Music is a natural platform where different cultures express their different way of living.. — KIKI Copy Share Image
Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
When I create music, it is a reflection of my soul, my experiences in life and my relationships with other people and cultures. Psychology,… — Yanni Copy Share Image
You discover over time that music can be overwhelming. Unless the musicians involved understand this they can lose audiences. Spontaneity and improvisation are salient… — Bennie Maupin Copy Share Image
If you take the creation of music and the creation of your own life values as your overall goal, then living becomes a musical… — Cecil Taylor Copy Share Image
Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me. — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
I think that music, or at least the kind of music that I make, benefits greatly from improvisation. — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people. — John Coltrane Copy Share Image
We usually forget that apart from making a living on this earth, human beings live in societies and these societies have cultures. It is… — Tunku Abdul Rahman Copy Share Image
Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as… — Archie Shepp Copy Share Image
And when I met Cecil Taylor it was a complete transformation of musical identities. All the tenets that I had grown up with were… — Archie Shepp Copy Share Image
It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establishment was turned on by the Civil Rights Movement and… — Archie Shepp Copy Share Image
So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chance on a guy… — Archie Shepp Copy Share Image
Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response. — Archie Shepp Copy Share Image
A whole generation of young whites have involved themselves with traditional Negro music. — Archie Shepp Copy Share Image
In America, for a brief time, people who followed John Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last long. The result is… — Archie Shepp Copy Share Image
You get a show where people are jumping up and dancing, but it's not a critical event in the sense of profound catharsis. Essentially… — Archie Shepp Copy Share Image
I can't see any separation between my music and my life. I play pretty much race music: its about what happened to my father,… — Archie Shepp Copy Share Image
Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened. — Archie Shepp Copy Share Image
I find that here in the States, audiences are generally less knowledgeable, from the cognitive point of view, though they are emotionally more receptive. — Archie Shepp Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Orlando, where the economy and culture has been powerfully shaped by tourism, and so I've long been interested… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly… — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I don't think the distinction between high and low culture exists anymore. — Jeremy Scott Copy Share Image
