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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

#brief #coltrane #completely #considered #country

It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establishment was turned on by the Civil Rights Movement and the artistic revolution that was becoming a part of jazz. ↗

— Archie Shepp

#becoming #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #establishment

Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as a whole. ↗

— Archie Shepp

#american #before #community #hispanic #hispanic community

So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chance on a guy like me. It turned out to be a very symbiotic partnership. I learned a lot from him. ↗

— Archie Shepp

#chance #guy #him #himself #i

So, rap has that quality, for youth anyway; it's a kind of blues element. It's physical, almost gymnastic. It speaks to you organically. Rap grows out of what young people really are today, not only black youth, but white - everybody. ↗

— Archie Shepp

#anyway #black #blues #element #everybody

You get a show where people are jumping up and dancing, but it's not a critical event in the sense of profound catharsis. Essentially it's celebratory. ↗

— Archie Shepp

#critical #dancing #essentially #event #get

I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true. ↗

— Sam Sheppard

#believed #believing #bizarre #disoriented #dream

I have never refused to talk to any authorities or give them any information I had. ↗

— Sam Sheppard

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I therefore believe that our system does not have a word for failed trial, and that is where the American public does not realize that our criminal justice system sometimes makes mistakes. ↗

— Sam Sheppard

#american public #believe #criminal #criminal justice #criminal justice system

I was in love with my wife and she was in love with me. We got along wonderfully. ↗

— Sam Sheppard

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