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“If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.”

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Author:Louis Armstrong

“Life is a lot like jazz. It's best when you improvise.”

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Author:George Gershwin

“I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.”

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Author:John McLaughlin

“If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.”

“Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.”

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Author:Ornette Coleman

“Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread--without it, it's flat.”

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Author:Carmen McRae

“It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.”

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Book:The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

Source: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

“When I die, I want them to play The Black and Crazy Blues, I want to be cremated, put in a bag of pot and I want beautiful people to smoke me and hope they got something out of it.”

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Author:Rahsaan Roland Kirk