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Albert Murray has 11 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The United States is not a nation of black and white people. Any fool can see that white people are not really…
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I am not an African. I am an American.
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When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of…
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The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people.
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As any competent student of literary composition knows, the more natural and casual a voice sounds in print, the more likely it…
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Effective stream-of-consciousness narration is the product of verbal precision, not just of literal documentation. It is decidedly not a matter of unedited…
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Now, one can often get away with playing music by ear when it is not being recorded, but writing is another matter;…
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Jazz music, as is also the case with the old down-home spirituals, gospel and jubilee songs, jumps, shouts and moans, is essentially…
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A jazz tune, melody, or composition is usually based on either a traditional twelve-bar, eight-bar, or four-bar blues chorus or on the…
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The improvisational nature of jazz musicianship is such that a truly competent performer must be prepared to function as an on-the-spot composer…
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The juke joint, the honky tonk, and the ballroom also represent one more thing, anthropologically speaking: a ceremonial context for the male-with-female-duet…
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For me, jazz, R&B, jump swing, Chicago blues, country blues, early hillbilly music, and honky tonk all stem from the same source
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Drinking in a honky tonk, just kicking hippies asses and raising hell.
— Jerry Jeff Walker
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People love talking about when they were young and heard Honky Tonk Women for the first time. It's quite a heavy load…
— Mick Jagger
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And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.
— Bruce Springsteen
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This is no honky-tonk parade. 1Q84 is the real world, where a cut draws real blood, where pain is real pain and…
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The juke joint, the honky tonk, and the ballroom also represent one more thing, anthropologically speaking: a ceremonial context for the male-with-female-duet…
— Albert Murray
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Yes I love good cold beer,and mustard on my fries, I love a good loud honky tonk it rocks on Friday nights,and…
— Eric Church
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At that honky tonk badonkadonk.
— Trace Adkins
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I took him honky tonkin and that was it.
— Blake Shelton
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In a tavern or in a honky tonk or on a four-wheel drive tailgate.
— Gretchen Wilson
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