Art Blakey quotes:

Music washes away the dust of every day life.

Jazz washes away the dust of every day life.

Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life.

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.

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.

Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life

It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz.

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

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.

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

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. "

We're here to have a ball.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

All you have to do is be able to feel.

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.