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Art Blakey Biography

Arthur "Art" Blakey (October 11, 1919 – October 16, 1990) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. He was known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina after he became a Muslim.

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so go on and play, and if you make a mistake, make it loud so you won't make it next time.

Goes On, Loud, Mistake, Play

It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz.

Music, Intelligent, Ears, Ear, Takes

A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music.

Music, Names, Jazz, Types, Make

Who knows. . . we'll be playing Jazz and having a good time!

Good Times, Having, Having A Good Time, Jazz, Knows, Playing Jazz

We're here to have a ball.

Ball, Balls, Jazz, Music

The people know more about [Jazz] in other countries than in America. America is the last country to know about anything, because we're too fat, we have too much of everything, you understand? And we do not listen.

Country, America, People, Everything, Understand

Jazz, I mean, music will always move, because it can't become stagnant. Because if it becomes stagnant, it's like a river, it'll kill us all. It has to keep moving, music will always flow.

Flow, Mean, Moving, Music, River, Rivers

Jazz washes away the dust of every day life.

Day, Dust, Jazz, Memorable, Music

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

Blues, Church, Music, Rhythm, Rock, Rocks

They say that Jazz is back, and I don't think it's gone anywhere. But they say it's back.

Anywhere, Gone, Jazz, Thinking

Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life

Dust, Everyday, Everyday Life, Life, Wash

There's nothing wrong with it. It's only a word. What's in a name? Nothing! Cats say, "Call me Muhammed so-and-so. "

Cat, Cats, Jazz, Name, Names, Say

All you have to do is be able to feel.

Able, Feels

If you feel like tapping your feet, tap your feet.

Feels, Feet, Jazz, Tap, Tapping

What ever truth drops on it eventually grinds to a powder.

Drops, Eventually, Grind, Grinds, Powder

That. s what Jazz music is all about. We started the Messengers because somebody had to mind the store for jazz. No America--no Jazz. It is the only culture that America has brought forth.

America, Culture, Mind, Music

Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.

Africa, America, Art, Country, Jazz, People

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