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And when I met Cecil Taylor it was a complete transformation of musical identities. All the tenets that I had grown up with were thrown out the window.
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More Archie Shepp sayings
A whole generation of young whites have involved themselves with...Black music has become a commercial commodity. Live performances are...I find that here in the States, audiences are generally...In America, for a brief time, people who followed Coltrane...In rap music, even though the element of poetry is...It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the...Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is...Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then...So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an...So, rap has that quality, for youth anyway; it's a...To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a...Today, music is visual....Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially...You get a show where people are jumping up and...
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