Jazz

(143 votes)   What kills me is that everybody thinks I like jazz.

Samuel L. Jackson
1948-, American Actor

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(141 votes)   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.

Imamu Amiri Baraka Jones

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(140 votes)   There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening.

Pat Metheny

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(134 votes)   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.

B. B. King
1925-, American Blues Singer, Guitarist

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(134 votes)   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.

Studs Terkel
1912-, American Interviewer, Actor and Writer

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