Art Blakey Quotes About Jazz

• It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz.

  Art Blakey

  Music, Intelligent, Ears

• Jazz washes away the dust of every day life.

  Art Blakey

  Music, Memorable, Dust

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• We're here to have a ball.

  Art Blakey

  Music, Balls, Jazz

• 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

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

  Art Blakey

  Playing Jazz, Good Times, Having A Good Time

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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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