Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand it. The music can connect us to our earlier selves and to our better selves-to-come. It can remind us of where we fit on the time line of human achievement, an ultimate value of art.

Oscar Wilde

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Mark Twain

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Albert Einstein

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Marilyn Monroe

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Friedrich Nietzsche

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Maya Angelou

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John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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Allen Klein

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Anaïs Nin

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Mahatma Gandhi

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

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C.S. Lewis

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Emily Dickinson

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John Lennon

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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Albert Camus

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Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

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Charles Bukowski

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