12 Quotes by Albert Murray

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    The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people.

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    If it is properly done, the 'as told to' autobiography represents how the subject wants his story told.

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    The juke joint, the honky tonk, and the ballroom also represent one more thing, anthropologically speaking: a ceremonial context for the male-with-female-duet dance flirtation and embrace, upon which the zoological survival of the human species has always been predicated.

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