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“By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.”
Duke Ellington quotes (American bandleader, greatest jazz Composer and Pianist. One of the originators of big band jazz. 1899-1974)
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“Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.”
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“The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago.”
Louis Armstrong quotes (American leading trumpeter, one of the greatest artists in jazz history, 1901-1971)
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“Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.”
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“You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it”
Duke Ellington quotes (American bandleader, greatest jazz Composer and Pianist. One of the originators of big band jazz. 1899-1974)
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“Actually, I'm not interested in Zen that much, as a philosophy, nor in joining any movements. I don't pretend to understand it. I just find it comforting. And very similar to jazz. Like jazz, you can't explain it to anyone without losing the experience. It's got to be experienced, because it's feeling, not words.”
Bill Evans quotes (American jazz Pianist. 1929-1980)
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“If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.”
Louis Armstrong quotes (American leading trumpeter, one of the greatest artists in jazz history, 1901-1971)
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“You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.”
santiz Cab Calloway quotes (American Singer, Drummer and Entertainer, 1907-1994)
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“If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.”
Edward Hopper quotes (American Painter who strongly influenced the Pop art and New Realist painters of the 1960s and 1970s. 1882-1967)
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“Playing 'Bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing”
Duke Ellington quotes (American bandleader, greatest jazz Composer and Pianist. One of the originators of big band jazz. 1899-1974)
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“Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.”
Bill Evans quotes (American jazz Pianist. 1929-1980)
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