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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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One can often recognize herd animals by their tendency to carry bibles.
— Allen Wheelis
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Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.
— Susan Griffin
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Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later…
— Thomas Cech
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Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
— George S. Patton
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when someone speaks he looks at a mouth, not eyes and their colors, which, it seems to him, will always alter depending…
— Michael Ondaatje
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In times of extreme stress, one can often find energy hidden in even the most exhausted areas of the body.
— Daniel Handler
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One can often trace the sources of a brand personality-here it is the advertising, there the pack, somewhere else some physical element…
— Stephen King
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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;…
— Albert Murray
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