6 Archie Shepp Quotes for You to Enjoy

Archie Shepp

American Musician

Born: May 24, 1937

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Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response. Archie Shepp

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So, rap has that quality, for youth anyway; it's a kind of blues element. It's physical, almost gymnastic. It speaks to you organically. Rap grows out of what young people really are today, not only black youth, but white - everybody. Archie Shepp

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So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chance on a guy like me. It turned out to be a very symbiotic partnership. I learned a lot from him. Archie Shepp

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It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establishment was turned on by the Civil Rights Movement and the artistic revolution that was becoming a part of jazz. Archie Shepp

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A whole generation of young whites have involved themselves with traditional Negro music. Archie Shepp

Music Generation Young Involved Traditional Themselves Whites Whole

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