"The extent of his influence across jazz, across……" — Stanley Crouch
"The extent of his influence across jazz, across American music, and around the world has such continuing stature that he is one of the few who can easily be mentioned with Stravinsky, Picasso and Joyce. His life was the embodiment of one who moves from rags to riches, from anonymity to internationally imitated innovator. Louis Daniel Armstrong supplied revolutionary language that took on such pervasiveness that it became commonplace, like the light bulb, the airplane, the telephone."
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36 Quotes by Stanley Crouch
Stanley Crouch has 36 quotes on this site.
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The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by…
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But there are a number of attitudes that should not be emotionally or psychologically ingested by young people.
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Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.
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Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of…
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When a violent minority that crosses color lines comes to believe that killing those you know or do not know…
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As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy…
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But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.
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All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the…
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Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public scandals and multi-million-dollar judgments in…
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Everybody has to be reminded that there's another way to be. Another more mysterious, unpredictable way to be that's not…
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I also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black novels, which was a complex…
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Getting to the pint where the other is not the enemy is a big leap.
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Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.
— Margaret Atwood
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I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody…
— Margaret Atwood
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The School Energy Crisis Relief Act authorizes the Secretary of Energy to issue energy assistance grants to help the poorest…
— Joe Baca
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A few years ago, I bought an old red bicycle with the words Free Spirit written across its side -…
— Drew Barrymore
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According to some Eastern religion, there is a belt that goes across the world, and I've heard that Minnesota is…
— Melody Beattie
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As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of…
— Bob Beauprez
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When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you…
— James Belushi
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
— John Berger
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The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse…
— Daniel Berrigan
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Philately is normally a boys' hobby but for some reason it was in vogue at my junior school. Between the…
— Sophie Ellis Bextor
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If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.
— Theodor Adorno
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But it's not just the cattle producers, it's all the attendant industries like transport and shipping and feed producers and…
— Julie Bishop
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