Quotes by Art Blakey

• 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.
• A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music.
• Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life.
• Music washes away the dust of every day life.
• What ever truth drops on it eventually grinds to a powder.