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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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Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye,…
— Johannes Brahms
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Creative activity is not a superimposed, extraneous task against which the body, or brain protests, but an orchestration of ... joyful doing.
— Gyorgy Kepes
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Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
— Thornton Wilder
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What feeling feels like over time. An attempt to screw up what feeling feels like over time. Heartbreak and a high C....…
— Stephen Dunn
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The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of…
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
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Politics is the name we give to the orchestration of power in any society.
— Robert McKee
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Sauces comprise the honor and glory of French cookery. They have contributed to its superiority, or pre-eminence, which is disputed by none.…
— Curnonsky
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If I have any talent, it's in the artistic end of football. The variation of movement of 11 players and the orchestration…
— Bill Walsh
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You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
— Quincy Jones
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I went to study some orchestration stuff because I got so inspired working with all the orchestras.
— Dido Armstrong
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I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece.
— Gavin Bryars
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