Blakey Quotes

#1. We all kind of grew up together with Art Blakey because we all were young and he gave us a chance to write. We had to write something that was good and to sit up with a great guy like Art Blakey and watch him.

Freddie Hubbard

#2. People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I mean, they're playing with the same amount of ferocity. It's not to say all jazz is like that.

Damien Chazelle

#3. When you say something really unkind, when you do something in retaliation your anger increases. You make the other person suffer, and he will try hard to say or to do something back to get relief from his suffering. That is how conflict escalates.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#4. 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.

Art Blakey

#5. Feminists are in an untenable position, defending something they no longer believe in, and which history will force them to recognize was destructive of most of the central pillars of civilization. I'm just the first one to point it out publicly.

Dave Sim

#6. All you have to do is be able to feel.

Art Blakey

#7. And our story is about to end, even though it never really began.

Jessamine Verzosa

#8. 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.

Art Blakey

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

Art Blakey

#10. It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz.

Art Blakey

#11. I'd hate for you to lose him because you were afraid.

Kiera Cass

#12. 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.

Art Blakey

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

Art Blakey

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

Art Blakey

#15. 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.

Art Blakey

#16. Getting the right balance is the primary concern.

Marion Blakey

#17. 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. "

Art Blakey

#18. When I - when I was going to school, I knew how to read, write, add and subtract and I - I basically said, 'What else do I need? I'm never going to be able to go to college. I'm not going to be able to afford to go to college. I'm not going to be able to get a scholarship.'

Mark Wahlberg

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

Art Blakey

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

Art Blakey

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

Art Blakey

#22. 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.

Art Blakey

#23. By the way, I know about the kiss. Then the door clicks shut behind him.

Suzanne Collins

#24. You can't leave a footprint that lasts if you're always walking on tiptoe.

Marion Blakey

#25. Don't kill the humans, the zombies, the guys in the dark cloaks or the girls that glow like the sun. Oh, or the crazy old woman with the fingernails growing out of her head.
Rhett

David Estes

#26. Remember, your worth is founded in Jesus Christ.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#27. Love and violence-not to conquer one with the other but to live with both, that's what I've learned. Each pulling me a different way. If I relax my struggles they don't tear me in two, but lift me up.

Denis Johnson

#28. Jazz washes away the dust of everyday life.

Art Blakey

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

Art Blakey

#30. So often, you don't get that opportunity. You only go over everything once and, the next thing you know, you're on set.

Queen Latifah

#31. We're here to have a ball.

Art Blakey

#32. I'm 52 years old, which means I'm of an age where my reading habits are more or less set. I read plenty of stuff on line but I rely on pretty traditional sources. I'm a newspaper reader, whether in hand or on my iPad.

Michael Wilbon