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Stanley Crouch Quotes

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 the...

Stanley Crouch

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 the...

Tags: learning

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 g...

Stanley Crouch

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 g...

Tags: hate, me, you

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Stanley Lawrence Crouch (December 14, 1945 – September 16, 2020) was an American poet, music and cultural critic, syndicated columnist, novelist, and biographer. He was known for his jazz criticism and his 2000 novel Don't the Moon Look Lonesome?

Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence.

Stanley Crouch

Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence.

Tags: violence, kind, point

At that time, Charlie Parker was trying to work up on something, recalled his friend Clarence Davis, but he didn’t know what he was doing. He was fishing, but nothing was biting.

Stanley Crouch

At that time, Charlie Parker was trying to work up on something, recalled his friend Clarence Davis, but he didn’t know what he was doing. He was fishing, but nothing was biting.

It may sound cruel...but...what makes a criminal is a disposition toward cruelty, a laziness and impatience that lead to taking from others, and cynicism that pretends there is a war going on, and tha...

Stanley Crouch

It may sound cruel...but...what makes a criminal is a disposition toward cruelty, a laziness and impatience that lead to taking from others, and cynicism that pretends there is a war going on, and tha...