"The thing that is making jazz healthy today is that people are coming out of other backgrounds - from rock, folk, from ethnic music. It's changing the music, and for the better."

-- Billy Taylor

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“I always worry that me by myself, I'm doing the same thing I'm always doing and become too lazy and conservative in what I do, or too incestuous in my own thoughts.”
“It is self-evident that any and all paths must be open to a researcher during the actual course of his [or her] investigations.”
“You are just too young to believe that everything is not going to be okay.”
“I happen to be a guy who also plays the piano and sings, so people automatically associate me with Billy Joel”
“Being young isn't about age, it's about being a free spirit. You can meet someone of 20 who's boring and old, or you can meet someone of 70 who's youthful and exciting. I met Fred Astaire when he was 72 and I was 21, and I fell in love with him. He certainly was a free spirit.”
“I still have a Gypsy sense of adventure. I don't think I have slept in the same bed for more than three or four months my whole life. I am always planting vegetables that I never get to eat and flowers that I never see flower. I have always moved around the world.”
“Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought.”
“I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else in the world.”

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