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Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. . . . the new inventive phrases we make up to describe things -- all that to me is jazz just as much as the music we play.

Source: In Notes and Tones, by Arthur Taylor, 1977.
-- Nina Simone, (Feb 21 1933-2003), US jazz singer, pianist, composer, songwriter; She is an accomplished pianist as well as an elastic singer; her repertoire extends from gospel to jazz, soul to pop.

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