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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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It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of…
— Samuel Johnson
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Clothes as text, clothes as narration, clothes as a story. Clothes as the story of our lives. And if you were to…
— Linda Grant
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But would we know, whether the pretended prophet had really attained a just sentiment of morals? Let us attend to his narration;…
— David Hume
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Time is what makes good stories. Much has been cooking for a long time, and at last finds an out in narration…
— Barry Hannah
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The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised.
— John Fowles
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We believed - and I personally still believe - that the so called Voice of God narration, ubiquitous in documentaries destined for…
— Unknown Author
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God help you if you use voice-over in your work, my friends. God help you. That's flaccid, sloppy writing. Any idiot can…
— Robert McKee
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I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.
— Jack Brickhouse
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I'm working 2 days a week right now, narration usually on Wed., and host on camera on Friday.
— Robert Stack
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The ‘I’ character in journalism is almost pure invention. Unlike the ‘I’ of autobiography, who is meant to be seen as a…
— Janet Malcolm
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Never yet could I find that a black had uttered a thought above the level of plain narration; never saw even an…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.
— A. S. Byatt
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