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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
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Nothing great or enduring, especially in music, has ever sprung full-fledged and unprecedented from the brain of any master; the best he gives to the world he gathers from the hearts of the people, and runs it through the alembic of his genius.
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And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books.
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Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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James Weldon Johnson
Born:
June 17, 1871
Died:
June 26, 1938
(aged 67)
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