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"A church debt is the devil's salary."
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"I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments. It's amazing if 2 percent of any congregation knows the Ten Commandments."
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"A lot of churches have not moved with the times."
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"Why is the church failing so miserably in impacting the nations of the earth?"
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"The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down."
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"You can't seperate modern jazz from rock or from rhythm and blues - you can't seperate it. Because that's where it all started, and that's where it all come from - that's where I learned to keep rhythm - in church."
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"Some will have to cease thinking of the Church as a memorial association for a deceased clergyman called Christ."
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"Before I had crossed the threshold of my church I was made to realize that I was shepherd of a divided flock."
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"In a jazz atmosphere, the audience members were so quiet and respectful of the musicians that you felt you were almost part of a meeting at a church or a temple, where everyone was completely in tune with the sermon and what the whole event was about."
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"The Church in England is the Church of England."
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"My father had all kinds of instruments in the house that he would hide from my mother. He bought them through mail order!"
Mother
"Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse."
Music
"Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz."
Music
"Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal."
African
"I'm always looking for ways to develop as an artist, especially as a jazz artist-to find different ways of testing my voice."
Artist
"Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song."
Musicians
"I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting."
Music
"I was never interested in singing in the church choir or in school. I was more interested in becoming a musician."
Church
"My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences."
Singing
"I've often cringed when I heard myself described as a jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a jazz vocalist."
Thought
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