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is juggling with harmonies instead of oranges.

A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges. - Benny Green

is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.

Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music. David Sanborn

is, at its heart, risk. Every note we play is a risk.

Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk. Steve Lacy

is simple, simple in that it is too complicated to be understood.

Anyone who understands Jazz knows that you can't understand it. It's too complicated. That's what's so simple about it. Yogi Berra

is tasked with the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism, a eunuch-like impotence that calls on one to 'give up your masculinity, let yourself be castrated.'.

The aim of jazz is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let yourself be castrated,' the eunuchlike sound of the jazz band both mocks and proclaims, 'and you will be rewarded, accepted into a fraternity which shares the mystery of impotence with you, a mystery revealed at the moment of the initiation rite. Theodor Adorno

 will endure as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Jazz will endure as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

is to music what getting lost is to a journey.

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

is juggling but with harmonies instead of oranges.

Jazz is a language. It is people living in sound. Jazz is people talking, laughing, crying, building, painting, mathematicizing, abstracting, extracting, giving to, taking from, making of. In other words, living.

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