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Elvin Jones has 8 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• You should get the feeling you should move. That's what is meant when people say the music moves me.
• It's the honesty you apply to your playing that makes music enjoyable. The style of the music has little to do with…
• Music is a way of life, it's everything. I play drums and that's what I believe I was born to do.
• To me John Coltrane was like an angel on earth. He struck me that deeply.
• If there's any such thing as a perfect man, I think John Coltrane was one. And I think that kind of perfection…
• I can see forms and shapes in my mind when I solo, just as a painter can see forms and shapes when…
• The greatest contribution jazz has made in music has been to replace the role of the conductor with a member of the…
• I feel very, very gratified when people are complimentary to what I have done or appreciated it with sincerity... It makes me…

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