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What is Jazz?

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.
-- Paul Whiteman

Jazz is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.
-- Françoise Sagan


Quotes by and about Famous Jazz Musicians

Louis Armstrong Quotes

Count Basie Quotes

Bix Beiderbecke Quotes

Miles Davis Quotes

Duke Ellington Quotes

Dizzie Gillespie Quotes

Billie Holiday Quotes

Charlie Parker Quotes



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