Quotes by Anthony Braxton - Page 1

Is jazz a rhythm, or is it a vibration?
Anthony Braxton / Composer
Jazz
Rhythm
Vibrations
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Everybody in America is angry about something.
Anthony Braxton / Composer
Anger
America
Angry
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So, yes, I am in the underground, but actually, it feels like home.
Anthony Braxton / Composer
Home
Feels
Underground
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I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.
Anthony Braxton / Composer
Music
Categories
Gone
Jazz
I Am Me Who
Assigned
Viewed
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I'm seeking to have an art that is engaged as a way for saying, 'Hurray for unity.
Anthony Braxton / Composer
Art
Unity
Way
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I'm seeking to have an art that is engaged as a way for saying, 'Hurray for unity.'
Anthony Braxton / Composer
Engaged
Seeking
Unity
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I'm a post-Abner Jay kind of guy mixed with Roger Corman and Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers.
Anthony Braxton / Composer
Guy
Roger
Teenager
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...I have great hopes for the possibility of a dynamic universalism that respects all our people.
Anthony Braxton / Composer
Music
People
Possibility
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I have learned through time that not everyone is interested in the kinds of things that fascinate me.
Anthony Braxton / Composer
I Have Learned
Kind
Rough Times
Fascinate
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My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex.
Anthony Braxton / Composer
Concerned
Contemporary
Jazz
Marginalized
Complex
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The word music is a convenient way to talk about what I'm interested in, but actually, in some ways, it's a limitation.
Anthony Braxton / Composer
Convenient
Limitation
Music Is
Way
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I am interested in the study of music and the discipline of music and the experience of music and music as a esoteric mechanism to continue my real intentions.
Anthony Braxton / Composer
Discipline
Esoteric
Mechanism
Real
Study
Intentions
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I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world.
Anthony Braxton / Composer
Creator
Discipline
Given
Possibility
Students
Universe
World
Greatest
Discovered
Student
Greatest Gift
Thank
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I know I’m an African-American, and I know I play the saxophone, but I’m not a jazz musician. I’m not a classical musician, either. My music is like my life: It’s in between these areas.
Anthony Braxton / Composer
African American
Musician
Play
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Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can be racists, which is an interesting gambit.
Anthony Braxton / Composer
Men
African American
Interesting
Men And Women
My Generation
African
African Americans
Nationalist
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I would find myself backing away from all of the 'isms', all of the communities. I have always been able to be misused by every community But that is OK. I would rather be misused than neglected.
Anthony Braxton / Composer
Misused
Neglected
Backing
Communities
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I would find myself backing away from all of the 'isms,' all of the communities. I have always been able to be misused by every community But that is OK. I would rather be misused than neglected.
Anthony Braxton / Composer
Able
Community
Isms
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Evolution is the phenomenon of change and the challenge of the next time cycle will involve the creation of constructs that will provide the kind of dynamic knowledge base that can assist the challenges of tomorrow (involving both fundamental and extended information).
Anthony Braxton / Composer
Challenges
Fundamentals
Information
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For the most basic assumption that dictated my early attempts to respond to creative music commentary was the mistaken belief that western journalists had some fundamental understanding of black creativity—or even western creativity—but this assumption was seriously in error.
Anthony Braxton / Composer
Creative
Creativity
Errors
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Growing up in the '50s and being in the '60s, in that revolutionary time space, I thought freedom was what I was looking for. Slowly but surely, it became clear that the last thing I was interested in was freedom. Because if you're going to be free, you have to be free from something.
Anthony Braxton / Composer
Space
Growing Up
Lasts
Revolutionary
Slowly
Surely
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I had never thought that I would be involved in narrative structures. As a young guy, I was more interested in abstract modeling. But as I got older, I began to see that there was no reason to limit myself to any intellectual or conceptual postulate, when in fact I'm a professional student of music.
Anthony Braxton / Composer
Abstract
Guy
Intellectual
Involved
Modeling
Narrative
Narrative Structure
No Reason
Music Myself Never
Began
Interested
Conceptual
Older
In Fact
Limit
Professional
Structures
Young Guy
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There is more to creative mastership than the surface of satisfaction and political certainty. The music of Joe Fonda is part of a living tradition of belief and dedication. Future historians will be surprised at the breadth of Mr. Fonda's offerings. This is a real virtuoso and composer of the highest order.
Anthony Braxton / Composer
Dedication
Offering
Real
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