Best quotes by Archie Shepp on Music

Checkout quotes by Archie Shepp on Music

• ‟ In America, for a brief time, people who followed Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last long. The result is that the kind of music I played in the '60's is completely dismissed in this country as a wrong turn, a suicidal effort.

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• ‟ Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response.

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• ‟ Today, music is visual.

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• ‟ To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material. I realize though, that only a few people in the audience actually know what that music is, or understand it.

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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.

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• ‟ In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous.

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• ‟ Black music has become a commercial commodity. Live performances are not so accessible as they were previously. It use to be possible to go to the bar on the corner and hear music. It was available for a fifteen cent beer.

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• ‟ A whole generation of young whites have involved themselves with traditional Negro music.

  - Archie Shepp