I have learned through time that not everyone is interested in the kinds of things that fascinate me. Anthony Braxton Read Quote
I’m seeking to have an art that is engaged as a way for saying, ‘Hurray for unity.’ Anthony Braxton Read Quote
My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex. Anthony Braxton Read Quote
I had never thought that I would be involved in narrative structures. As a young guy, I was more interested in abstract modeling. But as I got older, I began to see that there was no reason to limit myself to any intellectual or conceptual postulate, when in fact I’m a professional student of music. Anthony Braxton Read Quote
I am interested in the study of music and the discipline of music and the experience of music and music as a esoteric mechanism to continue my real intentions. Anthony Braxton Read Quote
I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world. Anthony Braxton Read Quote
I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me. Anthony Braxton Read Quote
Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can be racists, which is an interesting gambit. Anthony Braxton Read Quote
