Jerry Garcia
Musician
"The point is there is more information now then you can pass along comfortably in an oral tradition, say a strictly speaking culture. That is a problem."
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Oral Tradition
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Saul Williams
Poet, Actor, Musician
"I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written"
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