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Archie Shepp has 18 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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 are emotionally…
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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 happened to…
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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 long. The…
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So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chance on…
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And when I met Cecil Taylor it was a complete transformation of musical identities. All the tenets that I had grown up…
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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 to you…
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Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response.
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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 of profound…
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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. I realize…
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Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American…
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It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establishment was turned on by the Civil Rights…
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There is probably nothing finer than to climb free and unencumbered by equipment, reveling in the gymnastic upward movement, like Preuss or…
— Hermann Buhl
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I started taking gymnastic classes when I was 3 years old.
— Shawn Johnson
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Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better…
— Plato
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The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to…
— Plato
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How many young girls there are who do not see any wrongdoing in following certain shameless styles like so many sheep. They…
— Pope Pius XII
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These principles with due regard to time and place, must, in accordance with Christian prudence, be applied to all schools, particularly in…
— Pope Pius XI
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Register my money, for the money gymnastic. Cause I make it flip now they be lookin all nasty.
— Nicki Minaj
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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 to you…
— Archie Shepp
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The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the…
— Claude Levi-Strauss
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The gymnastic events are really what I tune into the Summer Olympics for.
— Johnny Weir
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The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion, the steadfast and willing devotion to the labor that makes the classwork not…
— Merce Cunningham
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There are likewise three kinds of dancers: first, those who consider dancing as a sort of gymnastic drill, made up of impersonal…
— Isadora Duncan
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