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Black or white, local or out-of-town, they all had Longhair's music in common. Just that mambo-rhumba boogie thing. —Allen ToussaintRead more about this topic: Professor Longhair
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“Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.”
—Samuel Johnson (17091784)
“In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now its lyric verse.”
—Evelyn Waugh (19031966)
“We are as much informed of a writers genius by what he selects as by what he originates. We read the quotation with his eyes, and find a new and fervent sense; as a passage from one of the poets, well recited, borrows new interest from the rendering. As the journals say, the italics are ours.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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