"A good deal of such ecstasy -- reminiscent of a shamanic seance
with its rhythmic kinesis, music, words, and audience participation -- carried over into jazz."

- - Neil Leonard 

"Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact."

- - William S. Burroughs


"Bebop was about change, about evolution. It wasn't about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change."

- - Miles Davis

"For me, that's where the music always has to be: on the edge between the known and the unknown, and you have to keep pushing it towards the unknown, otherwise it and you die."

- - Steve Lacy 

"I can write something so chaotic you would say you know it's not written. But the reason it's chaotic is because it's written to be. It's further out than anything they would be doing if they were just improvising."
- - Sun Ra 

"I say play your own way. Don't play what the public wants. You play what you want and let the public pick up on what you're doing even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years."

- - Thelonious Monk

"I want the sweetness and the brutality, and I want to go to the very end of each of those feelings. I've been trying to find a way for the terror and the beauty to live together in one song. I know it's possible."

- - Sonny Sharrock 

"If you take the creation of music and the creation of your own life values as your overall goal, then living becomes a musical process."

- - Cecil Taylor


"In

the mid-sixties, a synthesizer was considered an instrument on its own terms, not a means of duplicating the sound of something else. It expanded the palette and gave the music a dangerous edge."
- - Dorothy Moskowitz  


"It’s no longer about notes -- it’s about sound!"

- - Albert Ayler  

"Music is the whole question of life itself."

- - John Coltrane

"Some of the songs I write are based on my poems; for this reason, I am including some of them with this album in order that those who are interested may understand that poems are music, and that music is only another form of poetry. I consider every creative musical composition as being a tone poem."
- - Sun Ra

 

"The genius is the one who plays most like himself."
- - Thelonious Monk

"The important thing about art is that it makes people aware of what they know but don't KNOW that they know. This breakthrough results in a permanent expansion of consciousness." 

- - William S. Burroughs 

"The most important jazz musicians are the ones who are successful in creating their own original world of music with its own rules, logic, and surprises."

- - Scott Yanow 

"The shaman transports listeners to upper and lower worlds where they visit gods or consort with the dead, and jazz musicians, like other performing artists, transport their audience to heights and depths inaccessible through ordinary experience."

- - Neil Leonard 


"The
total statement of rock music and its audience is revolutionary. Long hair, for example, is an upfront revolutionary statement." 

- - Ray Manzarek 

"We need more diabolic music everywhere." 
- - William S. Burroughs

"We were dead serious about music back then. I thought music could change the world. I still do."
- - Kris Kristofferson  



TODD TAMANEND CLARK
Poet/Composer/Multi-Instrumentalist/Cultural Historian
The Monongahela River, Turtle Island

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