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James Weldon Johnson

"But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form."

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"But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form."

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"I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear."

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"Music is the highest form of philosophy of the conscious mind."

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"Music fills the infinite to give us infinite joy."

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"Music fills the soul with divine beauty of pure love and life."

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"The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days."

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"I think if we keep on doing good music and people like us and they buy the magazine because we are in the magazine then they cant basically hate us hopefully."

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"I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures."

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"Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing."

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"When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice."

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"I think we're in a very low point of music right now."

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James Weldon Johnson
"You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun."

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James Weldon Johnson
"I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle."

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James Weldon Johnson
"I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely."

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James Weldon Johnson
"Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend."

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James Weldon Johnson
"Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville."

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James Weldon Johnson
"As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs."

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James Weldon Johnson
"She was my first love, and I loved her as only a boy loves."

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James Weldon Johnson
"Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice, charity, and philanthropy, they will liberally assist in his elevation."

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James Weldon Johnson
"Washington shows the Negro not only at his best, but also at his worst."

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James Weldon Johnson
"I believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them."

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