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Jay McShann

"I was listening to all those lyrics and trying to take in everything that was happening. I was completely excited. It was one of the greatest times that I had listening to music."

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"I was listening to all those lyrics and trying to take in everything that was happening. I was completely excited. It was one of the greatest times that I had listening to music."

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"I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear."

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"Music is the highest form of philosophy of the conscious mind."

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"Music fills the infinite to give us infinite joy."

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"Music fills the soul with divine beauty of pure love and life."

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"The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days."

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"I think if we keep on doing good music and people like us and they buy the magazine because we are in the magazine then they cant basically hate us hopefully."

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"I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures."

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"Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing."

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"When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice."

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"Speaking unspoken words,music is a good way to say."

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Jay McShann
"We used to play the Savoy Ballroom, and we always had a boogie tune in the set. Bands like Tommy Dorsey used to do a little boogie woogie. The big bands."

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Jay McShann
"My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues."

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Jay McShann
"I was listening to all those lyrics and trying to take in everything that was happening. I was completely excited. It was one of the greatest times that I had listening to music."

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Jay McShann
"We had an old Victrola with the old bulldog they used to have there. The horn would come out."

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Jay McShann
"We didn't let a night go by that we didn't play."

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Jay McShann
"They had the music being piped right out on the street. I'd be three or four blocks from there and I couldn't get there fast enough because I'd hear old Joe holler them words."

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"I had listened to Joe Turner. When they'd book Joe there, I'd play the blues behind him."

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"It was my first time in Kansas City. In about two or three days I had a gig at a place called The Monroe Inn."

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