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Danny Barker quotes

Ocupation: Singer

Life: January 13, 1909 - March 13, 1994

Birthday: January 13

Death: March 13

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Respect your own creativity and respect the creativity and creative space of other people.

Topics: Music, Creativity, Space, Creative Space

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I'd advise you to visit New Orleans before you pass away. I really would. Because if you die without seeing New Orleans, you wasted half your life.

Topics: New Orleans, Passing Away, Half

One of my pleasantest memories as a kid growing up in New Orleans was how a bunch of us kids, playing, would suddenly hear sounds. It was like a phenomenon, like the Aurora Borealis -- maybe. The sounds of men playing would be so clear, but we wouldn't be sure where they were coming from. So we'd start trotting, start running-- 'It's this way! It's this way!' -- And sometimes, after running for a while, you'd find you'd be nowhere near that music. But that music could come on you any time like that. The city was full of the sounds of music.

Topics: Running, Growing Up, Memories, Aurora, Trotting

Lots of the bands [in New Orleans] couldn't read too much music. So they used a fiddle to play the lead - a fiddle player could read - and that was to give them some protection.

Topics: Player, New Orleans, Giving

The New Orleans bands, you see, didn't play with a flat sound. They'd shade the music. After the band had played with the two or three horns blowing, they'd let the rhythm have it.

Topics: New Orleans, Play, Two

Everything in New Orleans was competitive. People would always be betting on who was the best and the greatest in everything. That's where the battles of music came in.

Topics: New Orleans, People, Competition

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