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Albert Murray has 11 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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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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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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All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.
— Benjamin Jowett
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I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in…
— Jacques Derrida
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If idioms are more to be born than to be selected, then the things of life and human nature that a man…
— Charles Ives
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When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge; love simple…
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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I have to admit that more and more lately, the whole idea of jazz as an idiom is one that I've completely…
— Pat Metheny
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Graphic design is a visual language uniting harmony and balance, color and light, scale and tension, form and content. But it is…
— Jessica Helfand
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I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible…
— Hari Kunzru
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Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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