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Jazz is a racist musical form invented by whites to enslave blacks.

— Lyndon LaRouche

The word [jazz] never lost its association with those New Orleans bordellos. In the 1920s I used to try to convince Fletcher Henderson that…

— Duke Ellington

Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.

— Cassandra Wilson

“ORIGIN OF JAZZ It was 1906. People were coming and going as usual along Perdido Street in a poor neighborhood of New Orleans. A…

— Eduardo Galeano

Jazz came out of New Orleans, and that was the forerunner of everything. You mix jazz with European rhythms, and that's rock n' roll,…

— The Edge

One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the…

— Herbie Hancock

Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.

— Ahmad Alaadeen

If you didn't have the amalgam of Blacks and African-type sensibility and European sensibility, you wouldn't have jazz. Even in the negative and in…

— Wynton Marsalis

“This development signified also that jazz would someday have to contend with the idea of its being an art (since that was the white…

— Anonymous

New Orleans is a place where people are deliberately undereducated so that they can be a labour class - the economy there is tourism,…

— Christian Scott

Through the dark days of legalized segregation and on into the civil rights era, jazz shone as a beacon for achieving interracial respect and…

— Randy Sandke

“The birth of the civil rights movement was intimately bound up in the spread of jazz music throughout the United States. It was, for…

— Steven Johnson