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Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music … an obscene looting of a cultural expression.
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In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live.
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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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Born:
March 1, 1914
Died:
April 16, 1994
(aged 80)
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