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To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material. I realize though, that only a few people in the audience actually know what that music is, or understand it. ↗

— Archie Shepp

#audience #avant-garde #because #certain #considered

Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever. ↗

— Peabo Bryson

#answers #being #being alone #content #dilemmas

I'm not angry at anyone. ↗

— Peabo Bryson

#anyone #i

The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small. ↗

— Peabo Bryson

#greatness #line #obscurity #small #very

Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest in the idea of creating a new scene that could be a grassroots thing. ↗

— Greg Ginn

#came #could #creating #ever #grassroots

It is time to end the western policy of malign neglect. It is in the interest of the whole world to help tackle the actual grievances in Palestine, Kashmir, and in central and southern Iraq, and to help the region out of its economic backwardness. ↗

— James Buchan

#central #economic #end #grievances #help

The English scene got more media attention with their emphasis on fashion, with the safety pins and all. There were some really good bands over there. The Sex Pistols were great. ↗

— Greg Ginn

#bands #emphasis #english #fashion #good

The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of centuries, gave hundreds of millions more a life of ease and plenty, and, by allowing great cities to feed themselves from every corner of the world, multiplied the population of the earth fivefold. ↗

— James Buchan

#began #centuries #cities #corner #earth

The best prayers have often more groans than words. ↗

— John Buchan

#groans #more #often #prayers #than

I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products. ↗

— Richard Wagner

#chain #cheap #deprive #efforts #factories