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MIGUEL ZENON Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no j...
ART BLAKEY We didn't want to give the appearance that we were building a Taj Mahal. We want it to be a function...
BILL MOORE Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz....
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GEORGE BROOKS From the get-go, my musical influences come from hip pop, popular stuff. And then I backtracked into...
DAVE MASON School was pretty good about letting me take up music and that's where I had my first musical id...
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RANDY CHARLES I made this CD because I love music and I wanted to see if I could take the ideas in my head and pro...
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DEB CALETTI At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened t...
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AUDRA MCDONALD It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
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RAY CHARLES I learned from my mom to always keep pushing yourself.
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ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker.
ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.'
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ZARA PHILLIPS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu...
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