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Music Quotes by John Blacking
- ...we may be able to prove conclusively that all men are born with potentially brilliant intellects...and that the source of cultural creativity is the consciousness…
- We must ask why apparently general musical abilities should be restricted to a chosen few in societies supposed to be culturally more advanced. Does cultural…
- Thus, if a composer wants to produce music that is relevant to his contemporaries, his chief problem is not really musical, though it may seem…
- Tshikona is lwa-ha-masia-khali-i-tshi-vhila, "the time when people rush to the scene of the dance and leave their pots to boil over." Tshikona "makes sick people…
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- Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. — Louis Armstrong
- Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore. — Chet Atkins