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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.

~Archie Shepp

Topics: America Brief Coltrane Considered Country Dismissed Effort Followed Important Kind Last Long Music People Played Result Studied Suicidal Time Time People Turn Were Who Wrong

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I find that here in the States, audiences are generally less knowledgeable, from the cognitive point of view, though they are emotionally more receptive.

~Archie Shepp

Topics: Audiences Cognitive Emotionally Find Generally Here Knowledgeable Less More Point Point Of View Receptive States Though View

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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.

~Archie Shepp

Topics: Accessible Available Bar Become Beer Black Black Music Cent Commercial Commodity Corner Fifteen Go Hear Hear Music Live Music Performance Possible Use Were

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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.

~Archie Shepp

Topics: Complete Grown Had Identities Met Musical Out Taylor Thrown Transformation Up Were Window

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

~Archie Shepp

Topics: Generation Involved Music Themselves Traditional Whites Whole Young

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: May 24th, 1937

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