We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
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The time I am most powerful and in control of my life is when I drive my car. Whatever lonely feelings I have from the lack of communication with my husband disappear in no time flat. When the windows and the top are open with my favorite jazz station on the radio playing, nothing and nobody can touch me. Then I go home to the same relentless battle. Life can be a pisser
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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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It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.
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Being plied with fine food always puts me in mind of the slammer, cause the food was jumpin' in there too--high in fat but nice and salty. You know what the worst deprivation in there was My music. Radio belonged to my cell mate, the Blonde Hammer. He was into that jazz-fusion thing at the time. I tell you what, enough Spyro Gyra and you're hoping you'll get killed in a knife fight.
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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.
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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.
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You know, Equal Interest played at the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival Awards and not one musician from that category was even thought of. Even thought of! The idea, that here's this vital energy, and that element doesn't even know it exists!
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The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.
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Jazz is the art of skipping obvious convention while still following it.
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Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing.
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Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.
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I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
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After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.
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As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.
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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.
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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.
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What kills me is that everybody thinks I like jazz.
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Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.
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Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about jazz music.
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