Art Blakey

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Music washes away the dust of every day life.
- Art Blakey
Collection: Music
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Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life.
- Art Blakey
Collection: Music
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What ever truth drops on it eventually grinds to a powder.
- Art Blakey
Collection: Truth
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Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.
- Art Blakey
Collection: Art
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You can't seperate modern jazz from rock or from rhythm and blues - you can't seperate it. Because that's where it all started, and that's where it all come from - that's where I learned to keep rhythm - in church.
- Art Blakey
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A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music.
- Art Blakey
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So go on and play, and if you make a mistake, make it loud so you won't make it next time.
- Art Blakey
Collection: Mistake
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Jazz washes away the dust of every day life.
- Art Blakey
Collection: Music
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It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz.
- Art Blakey
Collection: Music
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Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life
- Art Blakey
Collection: Dust
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Jazz, I mean, music will always move, because it can't become stagnant. Because if it becomes stagnant, it's like a river, it'll kill us all. It has to keep moving, music will always flow.
- Art Blakey
Collection: Moving
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If you feel like tapping your feet, tap your feet.
- Art Blakey
Collection: Feet
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All you have to do is be able to feel.
- Art Blakey
Collection: Able
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The people know more about [Jazz] in other countries than in America. America is the last country to know about anything, because we're too fat, we have too much of everything, you understand? And we do not listen.
- Art Blakey
Collection: Country
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You can't seperate modern jazz from rock or from rhythm and blues - you can't seperate it. Because that's where it all started, and that's where it all come from - that's where I learned to keep rhythm - in church
- Art Blakey
Collection: Music
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That.s what Jazz music is all about.We started the Messengers because somebody had to mind the store for jazz.No America--no Jazz. It is the only culture that America has brought forth.
- Art Blakey
Collection: America
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Who knows ... we'll be playing Jazz and having a good time!
- Art Blakey
Collection: Playing Jazz
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We're here to have a ball.
- Art Blakey
Collection: Music
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They say that Jazz is back, and I don't think it's gone anywhere. But they say it's back.
- Art Blakey
Collection: Thinking
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There's nothing wrong with it. It's only a word. What's in a name? Nothing! Cats say, "Call me Muhammed so-and-so. "
- Art Blakey
Collection: Cat