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Music Quotes by Anthony Braxton
- ...I have great hopes for the possibility of a dynamic universalism that respects all our people.
- I am interested in the study of music and the discipline of music and the experience of music and music as a esoteric mechanism to…
- I know I’m an African-American, and I know I play the saxophone, but I’m not a jazz musician. I’m not a classical musician, either. My…
- For the most basic assumption that dictated my early attempts to respond to creative music commentary was the mistaken belief that western journalists had some…
- There is more to creative mastership than the surface of satisfaction and political certainty. The music of Joe Fonda is part of a living tradition…
- I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.
- The word music is a convenient way to talk about what I'm interested in, but actually, in some ways, it's a limitation.
- I had never thought that I would be involved in narrative structures. As a young guy, I was more interested in abstract modeling. But as…
- I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the…
- My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex.
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- We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself. — Louis Armstrong