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"It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage."

Duncan, Isadora on Jazz
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"What kills me is that everybody thinks I like jazz."

Jackson, Samuel L. on Jazz
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"The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it moves into academic concert-hall lifelessness, which can be replicated by any middle class showing off its music lessons."

Jones, Imamu Amiri Baraka on Jazz
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"Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning."

King, B. B. on Jazz
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"There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening."

Metheny, Pat on Jazz
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"Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance."

Sagan, Francoise on Jazz
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"Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the revealing of self. Here I be. Not for long, but here I be. In sensing her mortality, we sensed our own."

Terkel, Studs on Jazz
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"Jazz is the art of skipping obvious convention while still following it."

Parslow, Eric on Jazz
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"The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it moves into academic concert-hall lifelessness, which can be replicated by any middle class showing off its music lessons."

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