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MILES OF MILES paintography and photography and poetry by MICHAEL (MIGUEL)FORBUS Jazz is America's classical music." - Dr Billy Taylor "Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains." - Paul Whiteman "A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges." - Benny Green "Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains." - John Philip Sousa "[Jazz] went from the classics to ragtime to Dixieland to swing to bebop to cool jazz,…But it's always jazz. You can put a new dress on her, a new hat, but no matter what kind of clothes you put on her, she's the same old broad." - Lionel Hampton "I'll play it first and tell you what it is later." - Miles Davis "What we play is life." - Louis Armstrong "True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today." - George Gershwin "Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art." - Charlie Parker "I say, 'Play your own way. Don't play what the public wants. You play what you want and let the public pick up on what you're doing - even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years'." - Thelonious Monk. "All art is communication of the artists' ideas, sounds, thoughts; without that no one will support the artist." - Lionel Hampton "You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music." - Billie Holiday
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Anonymous Guest 28 Aug 2016
Very beautiful ???M Smith 10 Jun 2011
Wow, love the technic you are using. Beautiful work of art!Anonymous Guest 23 Jan 2011
very good workAnonymous Guest 21 Jan 2011
interesting work and colorsAnonymous Guest 21 Dec 2010
Piero, my friend thanks so much for you kind comments. I really appreciate them. Blessings. Miguel