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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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No, nothing is sacred. And even if there were to be something called sacred, we mere primates wouldn't be able to decide…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Everything is sacred and nothing is sacred.
— Shailene Woodley
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In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane.
— Dogen
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Nothing is sacred to a gamester.
— Bernard-Joseph Saurin
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In Colma, a suburb of San Francisco, California there's a proposal pending to tax . . . the dead. If proponents get…
— Rush Limbaugh
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In the absence of the sacred, nothing is sacred - everything is for sale.
— Oren Lyons
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I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred.
— Tom Robbins
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Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is…
— Archie Shepp
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Curiosity and irreverence go together. Curiosity cannot exist without the other. Curiosity asks, "Is this true?" "Just because this has always been…
— Saul Alinsky
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Nothing is sacred, right?
— Mia Kirshner
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Nothing is easy, nothing is sacred, why? Where did the bow break? It happened before your time.
— Brandon Flowers
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