"Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge."

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Source : 1938 In Downbeat, Aug.

Jelly Roll Morton

#Music Quotes #Style Quotes #May Quotes

“The mystery of human destiny is that we are fated, but that we have the freedom to fulfill or not fulfill our fate: realization of our fated destiny depends on us. While inhuman beings like the cockroach realize the entire cycle without going astray because they make no choices.”
“Play the flute of felicity! You, yourself, are the melody.”
“People that could yodel always fascinated me. People that could sing loud always fascinated me. So I started trying to mimic at a really young age: 6, 7 years old.”
“I define sexy as a real salt-of-the-earth woman who knows who she is, who feels strong and powerful.”
“Your voice is wild and simple. You are untranslatable Into any one tongue.”
“I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.”
“Travel is no more than a relatively healthy form of narcotic, after all.”

Source : Andrzej Stasiuk, Petra Hardt (2011). “On the Road to Babadag: Travels in the Other Europe”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The question is, when does the therapeutic community end and the reality kick back in Then, what do you do with them”

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