- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Differences
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Barack Obama was elected, it immediately brought out all the differences in society.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing unnatural in creation.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing that makes change possible is the idea of developing some kind of institution, because the institutions will survive individuals.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
All art is political. Yes. Even the stuff that sounds like bubble-gum songs. I think all art is, by nature, intended to motivate society for change, and the only reason change doesn't happen is because within the target population, courage is lacking.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an optimist. I have always been, and I will continue to be. So I believe there's always a possibility of transforming or changing or doing something different.
- Movement
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.
- Deployment
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- Nov 07, 2020
My solo playing utilizes the deployment of suggestive psychic rhythms. I'll state these throughout a given piece and play thematic improvisations on top of that. I like to suggest that rhythmic movement without always playing it. I like to create openings that I can step into.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jazz infers a style, but creative music has a wider field and wider specification about it. We know it from people like Scott Joplin and on through Bessie Smith.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first started, I worked with my father, Alex 'Little Bill' Wallace; he was a guitarist like B.B. King. I was around 13 when I started, and I learned a lot by looking and listening. I learned how to be a bandleader from watching that band work.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't set out to win awards. I don't think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it's an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do. Every award I have received is a confirmation of something I have done, and that motivates me to push a little harder.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been in dialogue with my family about what can actually be done. We've come up with this philosophy that in a truly multicultural society, the only way to have liberty and justice for everybody is to have multiple parties. And by multiple parties, I mean 50 parties, not one or two.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think all art is, by nature, intended to motivate society for change, and the only reason change doesn't happen is because within the target population, courage is lacking.
- Musicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything and anything is valuable.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020