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Europeans really provided many venues over there and hailed the jazz artists, and a lot of musicians went over there and stayed over there for a long time. A lot of them moved over there, lived over there, and died over there.

— Sonny Rollins

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Jazz came out of New Orleans, and that was the forerunner of everything. You mix jazz with European rhythms, and that's rock n' roll, really. You can make the argument that it all started on the streets of New Orleans with the jazz funerals.

— The Edge

Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.

— Art Blakey

What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history because it started in New Orleans and Kansas City, under the radar.

— Damien Chazelle

In jazz, there is a lot of European influence harmonically.

— Dexter Gordon

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

— Paul Whiteman

Jazz was the pop music of its day, and all American popular music has stemmed from it one way or another.

— Bria Skonberg

Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.

— Sonny Rollins

It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establishment was turned on by the Civil Rights Movement and the artistic revolution that was becoming a part of jazz.

— Archie Shepp

Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well.

— Ahmad Jamal

✗Opposing Perspectives

You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over here and had to play in sort of these inferior type dives.

— Sonny Rollins