Max Roach
Max Roach
Maxwell Lemuel "Max" Roachwas an American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDrummer
Date of Birth10 January 1924
CityNewland, NC
CountryUnited States of America
american-musician build call
I'd like to build what I call an oasis.
although came crash people poor year
Although the crash came a year later, and although the people were poor and disenfranchised, they had a lot of pride.
chose
They don't tell you why they chose you. And they won't say who was on the committee.
american-musician people
The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of the Instrument.
beauty communal create democratic experience jazz musical
Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty.
american-musician
I didn't even apply. There was no warning.
teacher school home
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.
rap movement sound
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.
music roles monk
Monk encouraged me to emancipate the drums from their subservient role as timekeepers.
music people musical
The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of their instrument.
names mind term
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.
running book writing
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.
roles resentment drummer
I always resented the role of a drummer as nothing more than a subservient figure.
mirrors gone should
Music mirrors where we should go, have gone and can go. Music is an abstraction.