"Who knows ... we'll be playing Jazz and having a good time!" - Art Blakey (when asked what Jazz will be like in 50 years.)
source: Interview with WUSS Radio (August 18, 1977)
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Art Blakey Quotes
"Anything Dizzy [Gillespie] does, I think, he has proven himself a genuis- he can try anthing." - Art Blakey
source: Interview with WUSS Radio (August 18, 1977)
source: Interview with WUSS Radio (August 18, 1977)
Art Blakey Quotes
"It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz." - Art Blakey
source: Interview with WUSS Radio (August 18, 1977)
source: Interview with WUSS Radio (August 18, 1977)
Art Blakey Quotes
"These things, we don't know anything about. Especially the blacks. They don't know anything about Jazz, and it's their own music! And this is where, it all comes from the same thing- it all comes from the Blues, from the santified church, from Negro spirituals on down. You know? They deny it. They don't know it. People let themselves be programmed, because they don't wanna think." - Art Blakey
source: Interview with WUSS Radio (August 18, 1977)
source: Interview with WUSS Radio (August 18, 1977)
Art Blakey Quotes
"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
source: Interview with WUSS Radio (August 18, 1977)
source: Interview with WUSS Radio (August 18, 1977)
Art Blakey Quotes
"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
source: Interview with WUSS Radio (August 18, 1977)
source: Interview with WUSS Radio (August 18, 1977)
Art Blakey Quotes
"They say that Jazz is back, and I don't think it's gone anywhere. But they say it's back." - Art Blakey
source: Interview with WUSS Radio (August 18, 1977)
source: Interview with WUSS Radio (August 18, 1977)
Art Blakey Quotes
"If you feel like tapping your feet, tap your feet. If you feel like clapping your hands, clap your hands. And if you feel like taking off your shoes, take off your shoes. We are here to have a ball. So we want you to leave your worldly troubles outside and come in here and swing." - Art Blakey
source: At the Jazz Corner of the World, Blue Note, 1959
source: At the Jazz Corner of the World, Blue Note, 1959
Art Blakey Quotes
"What ever truth drops on it eventually grinds to a powder." - Art Blakey (on the eventual death of racism)
source: KABC-TV interview, 1983.
source: KABC-TV interview, 1983.
Art Blakey Quotes
"Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz... it couldn't come from anyone but us. It couldn't come from Africans." - Art Blakey
Art Blakey Quotes
"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." But what's the difference? A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music. 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
"Opinions are like assholes, everyone's got one." - Art Blakey
"We're here to have a ball." - Art Blakey
"Music washes away the dust of every day life." - Art Blakey
