"Anything you are shows up in your music……" — Mary Lou Williams

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• What we play is life. — Louis Armstrong
• If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. — Louis Armstrong
• We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself. — Louis Armstrong
• You blows who you is. — Louis Armstrong
• The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. — Louis Armstrong
• It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right… — Johann Sebastian Bach
• I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not. — Lester Bangs
• I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything… — Travis Barker
• And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school. — Travis Barker
• Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth. — Ludwig van Beethoven
• Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard. — Warren G. Bennis
• I'm very influenced by jazz drummers. I always liked drummers like Roger Taylor, Keith Moon, Ian Paice, John Densmore. I… — Steven Adler

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