Blue Like Jazz

I picked up Blue Like Jazz (by Donald Miller) this evening to re-read some of my most favorite parts. As I was flipping through it, I saw I had underlined, and written thoughts

on the side of the pages when I had originally first read this book...I remember

I laughed, cried, and tattered the edges of the pages.

"I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve, But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes. After that I liked jazz music. Sometimes you have to watch somebody love someting before you can love it yourself." 

"In America, the first generation out of slavery invented jazz music. It is a free-form expression. It comes from the soul, and it is true."

"But what song will you sing when your soul gets set free? 

I think it will be something true and beautiful."

~Donald Miller

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