"If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune." ~ Count Basie (Aug. 21, 1904 - Apr 26, 1984)
"Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn." ~ Charlie Parker (1920 - March 12, 1955)
"The only thing better than signing is more singing." ~ Ella Fitzgerald (Apr 25, 1917 - June 15, 1996)
"All music is folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing a song. ~ Louis Armstrong (1901 - 1971)
"What is soul? It's like electricity. We don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room." ~ Ray Charles (1930 - 2004)
"I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues." ~ Duke Ellington (April 29 - May 24 1974)
"I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out." ~ Jimi Hendrix (1942 - 1970)
"Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know." ~ Louis Armstrong, asked what jazz is.
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