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James Weldon Johnson has 48 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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She was my first love, and I loved her as only a boy loves.
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This country can have no more democracy than it accords and guarantees to the humblest and weakest citizen.
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The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.
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Nothing great or enduring, especially in music, has ever sprung full-fledged and unprecedented from the brain of any master; the best he…
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A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized and acknowledged.…
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At a very early age I began to thump on the piano alone, and it was not long before I was able…
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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.
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O Black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?
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As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs.
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Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice, charity, and…
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Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano…
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The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If…
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The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on…
— Stan Getz
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Switch to piano! No. Really, if you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human…
— Stan Getz
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Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano…
— James Weldon Johnson
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What I really want to do is create great roles for women. And I'm not talking Nicholas Sparks romance. I think women's…
— Melissa Rosenberg
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Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.
— George Bernard Shaw
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A soprano in Massenet's Don Quixote complained that she had missed her entry in the aria, "because Mr. Challiapin always dies too…
— Thomas Beecham
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I really wanted to be an opera soprano.
— Maureen O'Hara
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I love to sing. I'm a soprano.
— Sara Paretsky
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I was a boy soprano. I had a natural kind of voice and then trained it after my voice changed.
— Len Cariou
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My family was very encouraging, and both of my grandparents were both beautiful singers. My grandmother was a coloratura soprano, and my…
— Clare Bowen
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Nobody inspired me more than Julie Andrews, who is a classically trained soprano herself.
— Lesley Garrett
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I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I…
— Victoria Clark
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