"When we look at the arts and letters in America, especially if we look at poetry, and poetry set to music, this dialogue, we have this very powerful beautiful, eclectic, diary, or narration of being in America, being American, participating in America, becoming more of America and also as an American, the American creative spirit, which is quite interesting. Our composers and poets have spent more time writing and thinking and speaking out of what it means to be a composer or poet as well as to be an American, or a composer or poet In America; both relationships."

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Source : Source: bigthink.com

Thomas Hampson

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“The only art form that Americans have created that's recognized around the world is jazz music born in a community that had the peculiar experience of being unfree in a free land.”

Source : "Ken Burns and Yusef Salaam Talk THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE; Plus Burns Talks Upcoming Projects like THE ROOSEVELTS, JACKIE ROBINSON and VIETNAM". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 17, 2012.
“Too much of the animal disfigures the civilized human being, too much culture makes a sick animal.”
“It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.”
“Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intriguingly, for some people they are an aperture through which wounds drain. The scapegoat of olden times, driven off for the bystanders sins, has become a tender thing, a running injury. There, running away is me: hurt it and you are hurting me.”

Source : Edward Hoagland (1995). “The Tugman's Passage”
“Regret is unnecessary. Think before you act.”
“Someone once claimed I was not really a Yorkshireman!”
“I'm the worst person about publicizing myself.”
“Semper Dowland semper dolens.”

Source : "Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares". 1604.

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