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Classical music is cool, but what if you took it and you expressed it in this way instead of the way that everybody says you should express it?

— Jon Batiste

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Our understanding of music and our understanding of who we could be and who we actually are has limited us from knowing our history

And then I moved to New York and I started hearing Thelonious Monk's music at jam sessions and I was like, 'Oh, wow, I'm trying to be able to play in a way that is very aligned to this music.

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The emphasis of study upon a particular aspect of music is in itself ideological because it contains implications about the music's value.

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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

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Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

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Above the pitch, out of tune, and off the hinges.

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