Anthony Braxton Quotes

I have learned through time that not everyone is interested in the kinds of things that fascinate me.

Anthony Braxton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: June 4, 1945

Topics

TimeMeI Have LearnedEveryone

There's such an adrenaline rush for me on stage and having all these people look at you. There's an adrenaline rush from not having things written down, too.

Jessica Williams

PeopleMeYouLookDownStage

Theatrical is fantastic. I don't think anything will ever replace the big dark room, the screen and the popcorn. You can kind of do it in your home if you have a nice screen, but it's not the same thing.

Mel Gibson

HomeThinkYouDarkNiceKind

The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions.

Max Weber

TeacherFactsOpinionsPartyMean

India has indeed a great and free future before her, in which she can make her special contribution to the well-being of mankind. The first and indispensable part of that contribution is to work with the United Nations for the defeat of fascism and of brutal aggression.

Stafford Cripps

WorkFutureGreatFreeIndiaDefeat

I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs.

Sonny Rollins

WorkGreatDeathSmallMusicians

I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch top Gibson through a Marshall, but the tone is all in his fingers.

Steve Vai

ArtistIndependentTopToneArch

I've always been a fan of issues around race and racialism, and I've loved playing with it. People act as though it isn't an issue, but it's a recurring theme in our lives globally.

Trevor Noah

PeopleLovedRaceAlwaysThemeAct

When you - when you play golf with somebody, you spend four hours or more walking with somebody, usually, you learn something about them that you didn't know before.

Tom Lehman

GolfLearnWalkingYouPlayKnow

Americans are as they are. We have to accept this. Lots of Europeans forget that.

Martin Winterkorn

ForgetAcceptLotsEuropeans

Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again.

Michael Ondaatje

NowWillWriteRightIdeaAgain

I hear a lot of artists become kinda self-referential, and a lot of people that tour a lot tend to write about the perils of being on the road later in their careers.

Lucy Dacus

PeopleRoadBecomeWriteArtists

Meeting authors is kind of the death of the characters. That is always heartbreaking.

Chuck Palahniuk

DeathMeetingKindAlwaysAuthors

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