James Weldon Johnson Quotes About Music
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Nothing great or enduring, especially in music, has ever sprung full-fledged and unprecedented from the brain of any master; the best he gives to the world he gathers from the hearts of the people, and runs it through the alembic of his genius.
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At a very early age I began to thump on the piano alone, and it was not long before I was able to pick out a few tunes? I also learned the names of the notes in both clefs, but I preferred not be hampered by notes.
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O Black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?
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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.
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