"There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places."
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"It's not the notes you play, it's the notes you don't play."
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"Always look ahead, but never look back."
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"I'm gonna live till I die."
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"Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!"
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"No one is original. Everyone is derivative."
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"She has been more famous, over a longer time span, than any other female singer."
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"The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is."
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"Jazz never ends... it just continues."
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"I cringed when I heard myself described as a Jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a Jazz vocalist."
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"Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest."
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"Jazz was born out of the whiskey bottle, was raised on marijiana, and will expire on cocaine."
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"What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth."
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"He's not a performer, he's not a composer, he's not even a musician, but Norman Granz is Mr. Jazz."
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"I ... started out to become a jazz pianist; in the meantime I started singing and I sang the way I felt and that's just the way it came out."
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"I think if it wasn't for the blues, there wouldn't be no jazz."
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"Jazz is something you have to feel, something you have to live."
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"I always say it's not my Arkestra, it belongs to some other force which wants certain things, to reach people."
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"The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm"
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"For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz."
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