Stanley Crouch
Stanley Crouch
Stanley Crouchis an American poet, music and cultural critic, syndicated columnist, novelist and biographer, perhaps best known for his jazz criticism and his 2004 novel Don't the Moon Look Lonesome?...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCritic
Date of Birth14 December 1945
CountryUnited States of America
Stanley Crouch quotes about
moving airplane light
The extent of his influence across jazz, across American music, and around the world has such continuing stature that he is one of the few who can easily be mentioned with Stravinsky, Picasso and Joyce. His life was the embodiment of one who moves from rags to riches, from anonymity to internationally imitated innovator. Louis Daniel Armstrong supplied revolutionary language that took on such pervasiveness that it became commonplace, like the light bulb, the airplane, the telephone.
dresses trash-cans armstrong
Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can.
intellectual subway highways
If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.
art player ethnicity
Above all else, [Benny Goodman] was a great player, one of the greatest American music has produced. He brought his absolute talent and his invincible love of music to the fore every time he played. There are many other things connected to society and ethnicity that are often mentioned in a discussion of Benny Goodman but all of them are connected to his overwhelming affection for the art of the music and the fairness it should be allowed to express.
america might patient
In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something.
music rap rocks
Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.
want directors artistic
When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present.
father people racism
You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.
intelligent odds people
I also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black novels, which was a complex love story in which both people were extremely intelligent and talented and understood a lot of things and were still at odds getting it together.
reading mean democracy
As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that.
war hate civilization
The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we'd probably go to war.
country class identity
Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class is - those aspects of your identity are not the same as your aesthetic identity.