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We're here to have a ball.

Art Blakey

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Art Blakey
Age: 71 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 11
Died: 1990
Died: October 16
Bandleader
Composer
Jazz Drummer
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Abdullah Ibn Buhaina
Arthur Blakey
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Jazz
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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.
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What ever truth drops on it eventually grinds to a powder.
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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.
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All you have to do is be able to feel.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Who knows ... we'll be playing Jazz and having a good time!
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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.
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