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- I think that the blues is in everything, so it's not possible to neglect it. You hear somebody go 'Ooh ooh oooh,' and that's the… Blues
- I try to find the core values that are so fundamental that they transcend ethnic identity. That doesn't mean I run from it. I embrace… African
- I'm not a person who writes really abstract things with oblique references. I look at abstraction like I look at condiments. Give me some Tabasco… Abstract
- If you are serious about American culture and you are serious about Afro-American culture, you are in a lot of pain. You are not -… Afro
- In the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra we play such a diversity of music, with 10 arrangers in the band, we don't really worry about… Arrangers
- It's important to address young people in the reopening of New Orleans. In rebuilding, let's revisit the potential of American democracy and American glory. Address
- Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand it.… Accessible
- Many of our greatest musicians abandoned all of their aesthetic objectives to try to become pertinent. And, at the end of the day, they never… Abandoned
- My mother always took my brothers and me to music lessons. There were six children. Our parents attended our concerts and encouraged us to study… Always Took
- My thing is, once you start to put a backbeat on your music or something that has a machine in it, you have popularity, but… Backbeat
- Swing is extreme coordination. It's a maintaining balance, equilibrium. It's about executing very difficult rhythms with a panache and a feeling in the context of… Balance
- The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat groove. It's in New Orleans music, it's in… All
- The history of jazz lets us know that this period in our history is not the only period we've come through together. If we truly… Art
- It's harder to build than destroy. To build is to engage and change. In jazz, we call progressing harmonies changes. Changes are like obstacles on… Attention
- Because the blues is the basis of most American music in the 20th century. It's a 12-bar form that's played by jazz, bluegrass and country… American
- Jazz music is the power of now. There is no script. It's conversation. The emotion is given to you by musicians as they make split-second… Conversation
- How great musicians demonstrate a mutual respect and trust on the bandstand can alter your outlook on the world and enrich every aspect of your… Alter
- We're blues people. And blues never lets tragedy have the last word. Blues
- Jazz music is the power of now. Jazz
- A beat is a moment in the life a groove. Beat
- Nothing else will ever capture the democratic process in sound as perfectly as Jazz. Capture
- In Jazz, improvisation isn't a matter of just making any ol' thing up. Jazz, like any language, has its own grammer and vocabulary. There's no… Any
- This music heals people because music is vibration, and the proper vibration heals. Carpe
- When you create change with your point of view, you have to be ready for what comes with that. Change
- When people dress well, they play well. Dress
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