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Max Roach Quotes:

Max Roach quotes

Ocupation: Percussionist

Life: January 10, 1924 - August 16, 2007

Birthday: January 10

Death: August 16

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I will never again play anything that does not have social significance. We American jazz musicians of African descent have proved beyond all doubt that we are master musicians of our instruments. Now what we have to do is employ our skill to tell the dramatic story of our people and what we've been through,

Topics: Play, Skills, People, African Music

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The American drummer is a one-man percussion orchestra.

Topics: Men, Orchestra, Drummer, Percussion

You can't write the same book twice. Though I've been in historical musical situations, I can't go back and do that again. And though I run into artistic crises, they keep my life interesting.

Topics: Running, Book, Writing

Music mirrors where we should go, have gone and can go. Music is an abstraction.

Topics: Mirrors, Gone, Should

I always resented the role of a drummer as nothing more than a subservient figure.

source: - "Max Roach, Master of Modern Jazz, Dies at 83" by Peter Keepnews, www.nytimes.com. August 17, 2007.

Topics: Roles, Resentment, Drummer, Subservient

Jazz is a democratic musical form. We take our respective instruments & collectively create a thing of beauty.

Topics: Music, Jazz, Form

The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of their instrument.

Topics: Music, People, Musical

They had all this talent, and they had no instruments. So they started rap music. They rhymed on their own. They made their own sounds and their own movements.

Topics: Rap, Movement, Sound

My point is that we much decolonize our minds and re-name and re-define ourselves . . . In all respects, culturally, politically, socially, we must re-define ourselves and our lives, in our own terms.

Topics: Names, Mind, Term

I think that the rhythm sections, drummers in particular, are the unsuing heroes of the music. It's the rhythm section that has changed the styles from one period to the other.

Topics: Hero, Thinking, Style, Rhythm Section

I used to take musical instruments home from elementary school. There were some music teachers there - we all learned instruments. A lot of us got started in public schools. Charlie Parker and Bud Powell, for example. But now there are no more music teachers in public elementary schools. It's like (Senator) Moynihan said, 'benign neglect.' Just let it rot and fester.

Topics: Teacher, School, Home, Music Teacher

Monk encouraged me to emancipate the drums from their subservient role as timekeepers.

Topics: Music, Roles, Monk

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