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“Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.”

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Author:Dave Brubeck

“It's just natural, it's not a great disaster. People keep talking about it like it's The End of The Earth. It's only a rock group that split up, it's nothing important. You know, you have all the old records there if you want to reminisce.”

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Author:John Lennon

“We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear .”

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Author:Freddie Mercury

“The Beach Boys are not a superstar group. The music is the superstar of the group.”

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Author:Dennis Wilson

“Jazz is improvisation and syncopation, with resilience and flow, with earthy elegance, nuance and subtlety, with the integrity of individual expression within (usually) a group context, with true democracy in action.”

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Author:Greg Thomas

“When I got pretty good I went on the road with a group. We starved.”

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Author:Wes Montgomery

“The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.”