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“so go on and play, and if you make a mistake, make it loud so you won't make it next time.”
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Art Blakey
Source : "A Night in Tunisia". Jazz album by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, 1961.
#Mistake Quotes
#Play Quotes
#Goes On Quotes
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“Jazz washes away the dust of every day life.”
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Art Blakey
#Music Quotes
#Dust Quotes
#Jazz Quotes
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“Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life”
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Art Blakey
#Dust Quotes
#Everyday Quotes
#Everyday Life Quotes
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“A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music.”
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Art Blakey
#Music Quotes
#Names Quotes
#Type Quotes
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“Jazz, I mean, music will always move, because it can't become stagnant. Because if it becomes stagnant, it's like a river, it'll kill us all. It has to keep moving, music will always flow.”
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Art Blakey
#Moving Quotes
#Mean Quotes
#Rivers Quotes
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“It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz.”
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Art Blakey
#Music Quotes
#Intelligent Quotes
#Ears Quotes
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“Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.”
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Art Blakey
#Country Quotes
#Art Quotes
#America Quotes
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“You can't seperate modern jazz from rock or from rhythm and blues - you can't seperate it. Because that's where it all started, and that's where it all come from - that's where I learned to keep rhythm - in church”
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Art Blakey
#Rocks Quotes
#Church Quotes
#Jazz Quotes
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“That.s what Jazz music is all about.We started the Messengers because somebody had to mind the store for jazz.No America--no Jazz. It is the only culture that America has brought forth.”
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Art Blakey
#America Quotes
#Mind Quotes
#Culture Quotes
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“All you have to do is be able to feel.”
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Art Blakey
#Able Quotes
#Feels Quotes
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“There's nothing wrong with it. It's only a word. What's in a name? Nothing! Cats say, "Call me Muhammed so-and-so. "”
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Art Blakey
#Cat Quotes
#Names Quotes
#Jazz Quotes
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“What ever truth drops on it eventually grinds to a powder.”
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Art Blakey
Source : KABC-TV Interview, 1983.
#Grind Quotes
#Powder Quotes
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“Who knows ... we'll be playing Jazz and having a good time!”
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Art Blakey
#Jazz Quotes
#Good Times Quotes
#Having A Good Time Quotes
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“We're here to have a ball.”
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Art Blakey
#Music Quotes
#Balls Quotes
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“If you feel like tapping your feet, tap your feet.”
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Art Blakey
Source : "At the Jazz Corner of the World". Live album by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, 1959.
#Feet Quotes
#Jazz Quotes
#Feels Quotes
