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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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Some reckon their age by years, Some measure their life by art; But some tell their days by the flow of their…
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That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself…
— Lydia M. Child
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The thundering line of battle stands, And in the air Death moans and sings: But Day shall clasp him with strong hands,…
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Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and…
— Emma Goldman
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Through the chill of December the early winter moans... but it's that January wind that rattles old bones.
— John Facenda
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A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in. A minute to smile and an hour to weep in. A pint…
— Paul Laurence Dunbar
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Sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moans of…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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I contribute to the dead of winter and the moans of silence, blood trails are music to my ears ... I'm a…
— Ted Nugent
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