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I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes from blues, with the answer-and-response.

— Cyndi Lauper

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.

— Wynton Marsalis

After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.

— Robert Quine

For me, I actually come from an electronic dance music background: house music, electro house, trance music, even. When I was coming out of school, basically, I discovered Brain Fever, Flying Lotus, J Dilla and all that. That was when I got excited about hip-hop and when the Flume project started.

— Flume

I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.

— Edgar Winter

I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.

— Taj Mahal

I always liked jazz. And my people liked the old blues, race records and the doo-wop and all that.

— Amiri Baraka

You know, jazz is the mother of all American music. R&B and pop and rap and everything are the branches on the main tree of the life of music, American music, which is jazz.

— Eric Burdon

For me, everything definitely comes from music.

— Mike Myers

✗Opposing Perspectives

I never liked blues and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.

— Johnny Ramone

I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.

— Norah Jones