Johnny Otis quotes

“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.”
-- Johnny Otis

Source : "Influential R & B singer, musician" by Randy Lewis, articles.latimes.com. January 19, 2012.

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“Genetically, I'm pure Greek. Psychologically, environmentally, culturally, by choice, I'm a member of the black community.”
-- Johnny Otis

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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.”
-- Johnny Otis

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“Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music.”
-- Johnny Otis

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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.”
-- Johnny Otis

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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

Source : "A Life in R&B / Johnny Otis looks back on his remarkable career, and at the end of an era" by Joel Selvin, www.sfgate.com. April 4, 2000.

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“Mix a conviction with a man and...”

“I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.”

“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.”

“It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.”

“What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?”

“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.”

Source : Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2009.

“Nationality is the creative power of human culture, culture is the creative power of nationality.”

Source : "Naţionalitatea în artă ("Nationality in Art")". Naţionalitatea în artă ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.

“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.”

“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.”

Source : Adi Da Samraj (1980). “Scientific proof of the existence of God will soon be announced by the White House!: prophetic wisdom about the myths and idols of mass culture and popular religious cultism, the new priesthood of scientific and political materialism, and the secrets of enlightenment hidden in the body of man”, Dawn Horse Pr

“Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.”