Anthony Braxton Quotes

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• ...I have great hopes for the possibility of a dynamic universalism that respects all our people.
• I am interested in the study of music and the discipline of music and the experience of music and music as a esoteric mechanism to…
• I know I’m an African-American, and I know I play the saxophone, but I’m not a jazz musician. I’m not a classical musician, either. My…
• 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…
• Is jazz a rhythm, or is it a vibration?
• There is more to creative mastership than the surface of satisfaction and political certainty. The music of Joe Fonda is part of a living tradition…
• I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.
• Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can be racists, which…
• The word music is a convenient way to talk about what I'm interested in, but actually, in some ways, it's a limitation.
• Everybody in America is angry about something.
• Growing up in the '50s and being in the '60s, in that revolutionary time space, I thought freedom was what I was looking for. Slowly…
• I had never thought that I would be involved in narrative structures. As a young guy, I was more interested in abstract modeling. But as…
• I have learned through time that not everyone is interested in the kinds of things that fascinate me.
• I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the…
• I would find myself backing away from all of the 'isms,' all of the communities. I have always been able to be misused by every…
• I'm seeking to have an art that is engaged as a way for saying, 'Hurray for unity.
• My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex.
• So, yes, I am in the underground, but actually, it feels like home.

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