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Jazz speaks for life. the blues tell the story of life's difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize that they take the hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Jazz Speaks For Life. The Blues Tell

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jazz speaks for life. the blues tell the story of life's difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize that they take the hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph.
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I love jazz. so to me, there are two main types of jazz. there's dancing jazz, and then there's listening jazz. listening jazz is like thelonius monk or john coltrane, where it's a listening experience. so that's what i like; i like to make stuff that you listen to. it's not really meant to get you up; it's meant to get your mind focused. that's why you sit and listen to jazz. you dance to big band or whatever, but for the most part, you sit and listen to jazz. i think it comes from that aesthetic, trying to take that jazz listening experience and put it on hip-hop.
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And then the spirit brings hope, hope in the strictest christian sense, hope which is hoping against hope. for an immediate hope exists in every person; it may be more powerfully alive in one person than in another; but in death every hope of this kind dies and turns into hopelessness. into this night of hopelessness (it is death that we are describing) comes the life-giving spirit and brings hope, the hope of eternity. it is against hope, for there was no longer any hope for that merely natural hope; this hope is therefore a hope contrary to hope.
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The blues? why, the blues are a part of me. they're like a chant. the blues are like spirituals, almost sacred. when we sing blues, we're singing out our hearts, we're singing out our feelings. maybe we're hurt and just can't answer back, then we sing or maybe even hum the blues. when i sing, 'i walk the floor, wring my hands and cry -- yes, i walk the floor, wring my hands and cry,'... what i'm doing is letting my soul out.
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I have heartaches, i have blues. no matter what you got, the blues is there. 'cause that's all i know - the blues. and i can sing the blues so deep until you can have this room full of money and i can give you the blues.
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In new york, i was excited about the music in new york because the only music that i was more or less involved with in the south was either country and western or hillbilly music as we used to call it when i was a kid and, ah, gospel. there was no, there was no in between. and when i got to new york all the other musics that's in the world just came into my head whether it was the classics, jazz, i never knew what jazz was about all, had heard anything about jazz.
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I grew up in a home filled with music and had an early appreciation of jazz since my dad was a jazz musician. beginning at around age three i started singing with his band and jazz music has continued to be one of my three passions along with acting and writing. i like to say jazz music is my musical equivalent of comfort food. it's always where i go back to when i want to feel grounded.
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