Art Blakey Quotes

"These things, we don't know anything about. Especially the blacks. They don't know anything about Jazz, and it's their own music! And this is where, it all comes from the same thing- it all comes from the Blues, from the santified church, from Negro spirituals on down. You know? They deny it. They don't know it. People let themselves be programmed, because they don't wanna think." - Art Blakey

source: Interview with WUSS Radio (August 18, 1977)