Archie Shepp Quotes
Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.
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As regards literary culture, it fascinates me that it has been so resilient to the Union. For example, when T.S. Eliot wanted to become poet in these lands, it wasn't as an English poet, it was an Anglian poet he wanted to be.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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If I could distil the relevance of Bruce Springsteen's music to Australia it would be this: don't let what has happened to the American economy happen here. Don't let Australia become a down-under version of New Jersey, where the people and the communities whose skills are no longer in demand get thrown on the scrap heap of life.
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Country music is three chords and the truth.
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I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.
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Because we always have to wear a uniform to compete, my teammates and I look the exact same. My belt is the only accessory that I get to choose. I usually wear a yellow cloth belt with cherries or a leather belt with a beautiful tree buckle that I got at a thrift store.
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I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician when music calls. I switch roles accordingly.
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I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.
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The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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Growing up, Tina Turner was definitely one of my influences, and, um, I take things from different artists, and I put them in my music, and I put them in my persona and my - they help me form into the artist that I am, so - for people to actually hear that come through the music is exciting.
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Record-breaking is not getting boring. I am definitely happy with that.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.
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Artistic development made me who I am. Somebody took the time to help me find what it is that works for me as an entertainer and who I am as a music maker.
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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
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I don't listen to music, actually. Obviously I go to clubs; I stand in elevators; a lot of my friends are musicians; I hear music all the time. But I don't have my own collection of music.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.
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What colonialism does is cause an identity crisis about one's own culture.
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I write songs because I have to write them, and if I didn't I'd be doing some other kind of music that didn't require a song.
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The motto of my Jesuit high school was 'Men for others.' I've tried to live that creed.
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It's infrequent that people are rail thin yet have high blood pressure.
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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 threatened.
