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
stories made agree
All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.
media violent myth
But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.
believe color vision
When a violent minority that crosses color lines comes to believe that killing those you know or do not know is a reasonable solution to problems, we are in need of another vision.
our-society violence might
Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence.
redneck southern violence
The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence.
attitude numbers people
But there are a number of attitudes that should not be emotionally or psychologically ingested by young people.
men thinking looks
I don't know any women who don't think about what they look like, and I don't know any men who don't think about what women look like.
fall mean elements
I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place.
words-of-wisdom african-american trying
If you're going to get in the ring and try to take the belt, you have to prepare to get hit.
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.