Anthony Braxton

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…

— Anthony Braxton

Evolution is the phenomenon of change and the challenge of the next time cycle will involve the creation of constructs that will…

— Anthony Braxton

I had never thought that I would be involved in narrative structures. As a young guy, I was more interested in abstract…

— Anthony Braxton

My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex.

— Anthony Braxton

There is more to creative mastership than the surface of satisfaction and political certainty. The music of Joe Fonda is part of…

— Anthony Braxton

For the most basic assumption that dictated my early attempts to respond to creative music commentary was the mistaken belief that western…

— Anthony Braxton

I am interested in the study of music and the discipline of music and the experience of music and music as a…

— Anthony Braxton

Growing up in the '50s and being in the '60s, in that revolutionary time space, I thought freedom was what I was…

— Anthony Braxton

I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have…

— Anthony Braxton

I'm seeking to have an art that is engaged as a way for saying, 'Hurray for unity.

— Anthony Braxton

I have learned through time that not everyone is interested in the kinds of things that fascinate me.

— Anthony Braxton

So, yes, I am in the underground, but actually, it feels like home.

— Anthony Braxton

I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.

— Anthony Braxton

I'm a post-Abner Jay kind of guy mixed with Roger Corman and Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers.

— Anthony Braxton

Everybody in America is angry about something.

— Anthony Braxton

I would find myself backing away from all of the 'isms,' all of the communities. I have always been able to be…

— Anthony Braxton

Is jazz a rhythm, or is it a vibration?

— Anthony Braxton

Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can…

— Anthony Braxton

...I have great hopes for the possibility of a dynamic universalism that respects all our people.

— Anthony Braxton

The word music is a convenient way to talk about what I'm interested in, but actually, in some ways, it's a limitation.

— Anthony Braxton