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"I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro."
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"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."
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"This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway."
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"Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth."
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"I was about sixteen when I discovered that music could get you laid, so I got into music boy, didn't matter what you looked like either, you could be a geeky looking guy but if you played music, whoa, you'd get the girls."
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"Music is happiness with a steady pulse."
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"Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory."
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"Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows."
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"If you have a recital to do, you have to memorize the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It produces an instant barrier, both for yourself and the audience."
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"I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs."
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"In my view a jazz musician is a great musician."
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"Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony."
Consciousness
"I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro."
Music
"Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed."
Love
"You've got to appreciate the things that come from the art of the Negro and from the heart of the man farthest down."
Art
"Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it."
Life
"The blues - the sound of a sinner on revival day."
Day
"The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household."
Money
"Nature was my kindergarten."
Nature
"I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee."
Boats
"With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds."
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