Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.

Jelly Roll Morton

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Topic

Jazz Music

Author

Jelly Roll Morton

Source

Mister Jelly Roll

Language

English

Time

1950 1950s 20th century

Occupation

Jazz musician Musician

From

United States

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Citation

Morton, Jelly Roll. Quoted in Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and "Inventor of Jazz", written by Alan Lomax. Grosset & Dunlap, 1950.

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Another quote from the 1950s

As I sit looking out of a window of the building
I wish I did not have to write the instruction manual on the uses of a new metal.
I look down into the street and see people, each walking with an inner peace,
And envy them-they are so far away from me!
Not one of them has to worry about getting out this manual on schedule.

John Ashbery

The Instruction Manual

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Topic
Observing others Work

Author

John Ashbery
Source
The Instruction Manual
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1956 1950s 20th century
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Citation

Ashbery, John. "The Instruction Manual." Some Trees: Yale Series Of Younger Poets. Yale University Press, 1956, I. 1.

Another quote about Music

I think the main thing a musician would like to do is to give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe. That's what music is to me-it's just another way of saying this is a big, beautiful universe we live in, that's been given to us, and here's an example of just how magnificent and encompassing it is. That’s what I would like to do. I think that’s one of the greatest things you can do in life, and we all try to do it in some way. The musician’s is through his music.

John Coltrane

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Topic
Power of music Music The universe
Speaker
John Coltrane
Source
DownBeat
Medium
Interview Magazine
Language
English
Time
1962 1960s 20th century
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Original Citation

Coltrane, John. "John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy Answer the Jazz Critics." Interviewed by Don DeMichael. DownBeat, 12 Apr. 1962.

Current Citation

Coltrane, John. Quoted in Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties, written by Scott Saul. Harvard University Press, 2003.