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"Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music."
"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."
"I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too."
"How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me."
"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
Explore more quotes by Stanley Crouch
"As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that."
"Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA."
"Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy."
"I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place."
"I don't know any women who don't think about what they look like, and I don't know any men who don't think about what women look like."
"Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public scandals and multi-million-dollar judgments in court against those who put products on the market that are dangerous to their buyers."
"Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can."
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