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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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Popular Jubilee quotes from across the collection:
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I am concerned because even in the past two years that were the jubilee years, I have seen evident signs which show…
— Bhumibol Adulyadej
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2012 has been an extraordinary year for our country. We cheered our Queen to the rafters with the Jubilee, showed the world…
— David Cameron
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Since Christ is the only way to the Father, in order to highlight His living and saving presence in the Church and…
— Pope John Paul II
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Howard was almost as fond of this hall as he was of his own shop. The Brownies used it on Tuesdays, and…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Now is the time to give me roses, not to keep them for my grave to come. Give them to me while…
— Mzwakhe Mbuli
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At the time of the Silver Jubilee, I was a grumpy anti-monarchist. I didn't celebrate and was appalled by the celebrations. In…
— Helen Mirren
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Peoples lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, unfathomable-deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum. . . . What I wanted…
— Alice Munro
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In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down London’s mall for Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. Seventy…
— Mark Steyn
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Life is one long jubilee.
— Ira Gershwin
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It's an absolute honor to be taking part in the pageant for the Diamond Jubilee. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and will…
— Steve McFadden
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The Morning after Woe- Tis frequently the Way- Surpasses all that rose before- For utter Jubilee-.
— Emily Dickinson
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Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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