Johnny Otis famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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When I got near teen age, I was so happy with my friends and the African-American culture that I couldn't imagine not being part of it.
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Genetically, I'm pure Greek. Psychologically, environmentally, culturally, by choice, I'm a member of the black community.
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I get a wave of pride in America when I look back at what we've accomplished in the field of music.
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Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music.
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I'm not suggesting our music is the only music, but I am suggesting that there are certain elements in America's culture that are so precious that it would be a shame for them to go down the drain.
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People are going to wake up to this great reservoir of music we've created in America - cakewalks, one-steps, boogie-woogie, country and western. I had a bit to do with one of those traditions.
-- Johnny Otis
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Mix a conviction with a man and...
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I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.
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African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic an opportunity to miss.
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It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
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What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
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I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.
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Nationality is the creative power of human culture, culture is the creative power of nationality.
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Music is language itself. It should not have any barriers of caste, creed, language or anything. Music is one, only cultures are different. Music is the language of languages. It is the ultimate mother of languages.
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The exclusion of true esoteric religion has been the business of the State since ancient times. At first this was done via the establishment of the popular idealism of exoteric religious institutions in league with the State. But in modern times the same process is done by the strategic exclusion of conventional religious cultism, mystical idealism, and higher evolutionary Wisdom from the mechanisms of popular culture.
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Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.
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