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The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people.

~Albert Murray

Topics: Blues Creation People Product

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If it is properly done, the 'as told to' autobiography represents how the subject wants his story told.

~Albert Murray

Topics: Autobiography Done His How Properly Represents Story Subject Wants

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The United States is not a nation of black and white people. Any fool can see that white people are not really white, and that black people are not black.

~Albert Murray

Topics: Any Black Black And White Fool Nation People Really See States United United States White

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I am not an African. I am an American.

~Albert Murray

Topics: African Am American I Am

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When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man.

~Albert Murray

Topics: Blues Dancer Determines Existential Fulfilling Fundamental He Man Medicine Mission Musician Poet Priest Requirement Same Swings

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As any competent student of literary composition knows, the more natural and casual a voice sounds in print, the more likely it is to have been edited time and again.

~Albert Murray

Topics: Again Any Been Casual Competent Composition Edited In Print Knows Likely Literary More Natural Print Sounds Student Time Voice

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Effective stream-of-consciousness narration is the product of verbal precision, not just of literal documentation. It is decidedly not a matter of unedited free-association.

~Albert Murray

Topics: Documentation Effective Just Literal Matter Precision Product Verbal

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Now, one can often get away with playing music by ear when it is not being recorded, but writing is another matter; its mistakes are not forgotten because they are still there to confuse us.

~Albert Murray

Topics: Another Away Because Being Confuse Ear Forgotten Get Matter Mistakes Music Now Often Playing Recorded Still Us Writing

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Jazz music, as is also the case with the old down-home spirituals, gospel and jubilee songs, jumps, shouts and moans, is essentially an American vernacular or idiomatic modification of musical conventions imported from Europe, beginning back during the time of the early settlers of the original colonies.

~Albert Murray

Topics: Also American Back Beginning Case Colonies Conventions Early Essentially Europe Gospel Imported Jazz Jazz Music Jubilee Jumps Modification Music Musical Old Original Settlers Songs Time Vernacular

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A jazz tune, melody, or composition is usually based on either a traditional twelve-bar, eight-bar, or four-bar blues chorus or on the thirty-two-bar chorus of the American popular song.

~Albert Murray

Topics: American Based Blues Chorus Composition Either Jazz Melody Popular Song Traditional Tune

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Critic

Born: May 12th, 1916

Died: August 18th, 2013

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