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Mahalia Jackson

"One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it."

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"If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to that other than that's just the way it has been."

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"I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record."

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"Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues."

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"It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense."

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"Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians."

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"I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan."

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"Jazz was uplifted by what I did."

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"I was totally into jazz in my teens."

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"The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation."

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"It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test."
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"How can you sing of amazing grace and all God's wonders without using your hands?"
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"I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money."
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"Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me."
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