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“Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can.”

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Stanley Crouch is an American poet, born on December 14, 1945. His poetry is known for its profound social commentary and unique perspective on black culture. more

“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.”

“A transition from material want to meaning want is in progress on an historically unprecedented scale-involving hundreds of millions of people-and may eventually be recognized as the principal cultural development of our age.”

People Want May Age Millions Progress Materials Development Scales Transition Principal Involving Unprecedented

Book:The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse

Source: The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse

“Patience is the best medicine.”

Patience Medicine

Author:John Florio

“To come to grips with creativity, I must ask creative, adventurous questions - the kind which, in all likelihood, cannot be answered.”

Kind Asks Creativity Creative Adventure Adventurous Likelihood

Author:Lukas Foss

“Boulez's only concern is with power. He lost the leadership of the avant-guard more than ten years ago to Stockhausen. Now others have moved in. With the need for power, where was he to go? So he chose to be a conductor. He is a wonderful musician, a wonderful intelligence. It's a pity there is no humanity there. Does he have sex? I think not. When men have no sex, they go after power in this big, obsessive way.”

Thinking Men Way Needs Years Doe Bigs Humanity Lost Sex Wonderful Ten Musician Concern Years Ago Moved Pity Obsessive Conductor Stockhausen

Author:Lukas Foss

“At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people.”

People Has Beens Values Turns Belief Nations Change Bottom Imbalance Beliefs And Values

Author:Howard Dean

“I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own.”

Way Made Play Artist Study Influence Made It Transformed Basics

Author:Lukas Foss

“My students frequently ask what their next project should be. My advice: immerse yourself in the music you love and you will find what you want to do; you will discover your next project.”

Want Should Next Asks Advice Students Projects What You Want Over You Love Advice

Author:Lukas Foss

“It is the element I miss in electronic music - no performance, no loving immersion. Maybe that is why I was never particularly drawn to electronic music.”

Missing Elements Performances Electronic Music Immersion

Author:Lukas Foss

“Mozart wrote so many works in his thirty-five years that it would take a lifetime just to write out the notes. We literally do not know how he did it.”

Knows Writing Years Know How Five Notes Lifetime Thirty Five Years

Author:Lukas Foss

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