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— Johnny Otis"Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music."
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What city has given the world more in terms of American culture than New Orleans? There is none. Not New York. Not L.A. Not Chicago. Not anywhere, in the sense that African American music has gone around the world twenty times over, and it's continuing to evolve. It is our greatest cultural export.
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I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.
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