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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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The rough and ready improvisational quality to life on board the International Space Station is reminiscent of a long trip in a…
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Writing is very improvisational. It's like trying to fix a broken sewing machine with safety pins and rubber bands. A lot of…
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When comedy is good, it's jazz. The beats of it, the looseness, the improvisational part, the music-the way you hit the inflection,…
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And it occurred to me that in this new millennial life of instant and ubiquitous connection, you don't in fact communicate so…
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I think if my daughter was interested in acting, I would find ways for her to act in theater that has to…
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I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction…
— Amy Tan
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Basketball, unlike football with its prescribed routes, is an improvisational game, similar to jazz. If someone drops a note, someone else must…
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