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“A great influence in my life was the sanctified or Holiness churches...Everybody in there sang and they clapped and stomped heir feet and sang with their whole body... Their music was so strong and expressive, it used to bring tears to my eyes.”

Whole Body Eye Used Strong Church Music Feet Influence Tears Holiness Heirs Expressive Great Influence

Author:Mahalia Jackson

“Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me; Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings.”

Years Children Mother Music Feet Musician Singing Sitting Piano Strings Dusk Vistas

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.”

World Feels Whole Seems Spirituality Reading Music Fire Tree Feet Sky Pure Glory Blue Green Deeper Scripture Whole World Glory Of God Reading The Scriptures

Author:Thomas Merton

“If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune.”

Ifs Persons Play Music Feet Tunes

Author:Count Basie

“For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.”

Feels Music Feet Ten Philosophical Nervous Tall Soothing Nervous System

Book:Clapton: The Autobiography

Source: Clapton: The Autobiography

“Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?”

Source: Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo

“Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.”

People Long Brain Music Feet Musician Jazz Endure Jazz Music Jazz Musician Inspirational Music Funny Music Famous Musician Classic Music Musical Life Words And Music Hearing Music Free Jazz

Book:Six marches

Source: Six marches

“Keep on listening & tapping your feet.”

Music Feet Listening Jazz Tapping

Author:Count Basie

“There was passion, there was laughter The first morning after I just couldn't get my feet to touch the ground Everytime we were together We talked about forever I was certain it was Heaven We had found.”

Firsts Together Certain Passion Found Heaven Music Morning Forever Feet Laughter Morning After

Author:Lee Ann Womack

“At this time the fashion is to bring something to jazz that I reject. They speak of freedom. But one has no right, under pretext of freeing yourself, to be illogical and incoherent by getting rid of structure and simply piling a lot of notes one on top of the other. There's no beat anymore. You can't keep time with your foot. I believe that what is happening to jazz with people like Ornette Coleman, for instance, is bad. There's a new idea that consists in destroying everything and find what's shocking and unexpected; whereas jazz must first of all tell a story that anyone can understand.”