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Archie Shepp has 18 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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All the tenets that I had grown up with were thrown out the window.
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I find that here in the States, audiences are generally less knowledgeable, from the cognitive point of view, though they are emotionally…
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I can't see any separation between my music and my life. I play pretty much race music: its about what happened to…
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In America, for a brief time, people who followed John Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last long. The…
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So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chance on…
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And when I met Cecil Taylor it was a complete transformation of musical identities. All the tenets that I had grown up…
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So, rap has that quality, for youth anyway; it's a kind of blues element. It's physical, almost gymnastic. It speaks to you…
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Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response.
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You get a show where people are jumping up and dancing, but it's not a critical event in the sense of profound…
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To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material. I realize…
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Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American…
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It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establishment was turned on by the Civil Rights…
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Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.
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I've built a solid career there, but America's ten times the size. Now that we're onto the third record, I feel like…
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You need to take risks, you never know if the end results will be beautiful or strange, you need to be instantaneous,…
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Listening to other people's needs is listening to God. Noticing simple, natural beauty, hearing music, even confronting the challenge of pain and…
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Our minds must meditate on some object. According to what he thinks, a man can create an atmosphere of radiance, exuberance, buoyancy;…
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When Punk Rock happened, it created an opening in the culture... it made it ok to think you could play music, even…
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We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that's when I lose interest. I hope that our…
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In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so.
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I'm still getting thrilled with music even after 40 years of doing it professionally.
— Jeff Lynne
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