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The word music is a convenient way to talk about what I'm interested in, but actually, in some ways, it's a limitation.

- Anthony Braxton

Some, Limitation, About, Convenient

My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex.

- Anthony Braxton

Work, Been, Concerned, Marginalized

I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.

- Anthony Braxton

I Am, Outside, Viewed, Categories

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

Generation, Which, European, Nationalist

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

Gift, Creator, Given, Greatest Gift

I would find myself backing away from all of the 'isms', all of the communities. I have always been able to be misused by every community But that is OK. I would rather be misused than neglected.

- Anthony Braxton

Always, Away, Been, Communities

I have learned through time that not everyone is interested in the kinds of things that fascinate me.

- Anthony Braxton

Through, Everyone, Learned, I Have Learned

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

Study, Intentions, Esoteric, Mechanism

Growing up in the '50s and being in the '60s, in that revolutionary time space, I thought freedom was what I was looking for. Slowly but surely, it became clear that the last thing I was interested in was freedom. Because if you're going to be free, you have to be free from something.

- Anthony Braxton

Thought, Surely, Became, Slowly

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

Reason, Modeling, Fact, No Reason

So, yes, I am in the underground, but actually, it feels like home.

- Anthony Braxton

I Am, Feels, Actually, Underground

I'm seeking to have an art that is engaged as a way for saying, 'Hurray for unity.'

- Anthony Braxton

Art, Unity, Engaged, Seeking

Everybody in America is angry about something.

- Anthony Braxton

Anger, Everybody, About, Angry

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