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“By us forming an association and promoting and taking over playing our own music," he warned, "it's going to involve a great deal of sacrifice on each and every one of us. And I personally don't want to sacrifice, make any sacrifice for any standard music.”
― George E. Lewis, A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music

“I developed a philosophy there that I wanted to play my bebop as loose as possible and I wanted to play my free music as tight as possible.”
― George E. Lewis, A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music