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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."
"Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy."
"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."
"I also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black novels, which was a complex love story in which both people were extremely intelligent and talented and understood a lot of things and were still at odds getting it together."
"The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we'd probably go to war."
"The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are talking about."
"Now the writing in the head, I definitely do every day, thinking about how I want to phrase something or how I'd like to rephrase something I've already written."
"Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately."
"The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence."
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