Art Blakey Quotes

• So go on and play, and if you make a mistake, make it loud so you won't make it next time.

  Art Blakey

  Mistake, Play, Goes On

  "A Night in Tunisia". Jazz album by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, 1961.

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• Jazz washes away the dust of every day life.

  Art Blakey

  Music, Memorable, Dust

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• It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz.

  Art Blakey

  Music, Intelligent, Ears

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• Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life

  Art Blakey

  Dust, Everyday, Everyday Life

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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

  Moving, Mean, Rivers

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• If you feel like tapping your feet, tap your feet.

  Art Blakey

  Feet, Jazz, Feels

  "At the Jazz Corner of the World". Live album by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, 1959.

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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

  Music, Names, Jazz

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• All you have to do is be able to feel.

  Art Blakey

  Able, Feels

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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

  Country, America, People

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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

  Country, Art, America

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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

  Music, Rocks, Church

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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

  America, Mind, Culture

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• Who knows ... we'll be playing Jazz and having a good time!

  Art Blakey

  Playing Jazz, Good Times, Having A Good Time

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• We're here to have a ball.

  Art Blakey

  Music, Balls, Jazz

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• What ever truth drops on it eventually grinds to a powder.

  Art Blakey

  Grind, Powder

  KABC-TV Interview, 1983.

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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

  Thinking, Gone, Jazz

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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

  Cat, Names, Jazz

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