Home / Quotes / Quote by Stanley Crouch

Quote by Stanley Crouch

“I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place.”

Quote by Stanley Crouch

Author

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

You May Also Like

“In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something.”

Enough Might America Figures Patient Be Patient

Author:Stanley Crouch

“If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.”

Ifs Intellectual Intelligence Highways Subway

Author:Stanley Crouch

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

Dresses Bottom Trash Exquisite Armstrong Trash Cans

Author: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.”

“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