Art Blakey famous quotes

05-12-2025

so go on and play, and if you make a mistake, make it loud so you won't make it next time.
-- Art Blakey

#Mistake #Play #Goes On
Jazz washes away the dust of every day life.
-- Art Blakey

#Music #Dust #Jazz
Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life
-- Art Blakey

#Dust #Everyday #Everyday Life
A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music.
-- Art Blakey

#Music #Names #Type
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.
-- Art Blakey

#Moving #Mean #Rivers
It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz.
-- Art Blakey

#Music #Intelligent #Ears
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.
-- Art Blakey

#Country #Art #America
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
-- Art Blakey

#Rocks #Church #Jazz
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.
-- Art Blakey

#America #Mind #Culture
All you have to do is be able to feel.
-- Art Blakey

#Able #Feels
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. "
-- Art Blakey

#Cat #Names #Jazz
What ever truth drops on it eventually grinds to a powder.
-- Art Blakey

#Grind #Powder
Who knows ... we'll be playing Jazz and having a good time!
-- Art Blakey

#Jazz #Good Times #Having A Good Time
We're here to have a ball.
-- Art Blakey

#Music #Balls
If you feel like tapping your feet, tap your feet.
-- Art Blakey

#Feet #Jazz #Feels

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