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title: "6 Jazz Going Quotes by 5 authors"
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> [There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-lacy/there-is-an-awful-lot-of-what-i-call-recreational-jazz-going-on-where/)

[Steve Lacy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-lacy/)

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> [Nobody knows where jazz is going, because nobody has ever known where jazz was going. I mean, you couldn't possibly predict the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-giddins/nobody-knows-where-jazz-is-going-because-nobody-has-ever-known-where/)

[Gary Giddins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-giddins/)

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> [We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ken-burns/we-re-having-a-hard-time-understanding-where-jazz-is-going-what/)

[Ken Burns](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ken-burns/)

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> [I don't know where jazz is going. Maybe it's going to hell. You can't make anything go anywhere. It just happens.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thelonious-monk/i-don-t-know-where-jazz-is-going-maybe-it-s-going-to-hell-you-can-t/)

[Thelonious Monk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thelonious-monk/)

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> [“Where’s jazz going? I don’t know. Maybe it’s going to hell. You can’t make anything go anywhere. It just happens.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thelonious-monk/where-s-jazz-going-i-don-t-know-maybe-it-s-going-to-hell-you-can-t/)

[Thelonious Monk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thelonious-monk/)

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> [Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/quincy-jones/hell-nobody-knows-where-jazz-is-going-to-go-there-may-be-a-kid-right/)

[Quincy Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/quincy-jones/)

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