• If it wasn't for [pimps, prostitutes, hustlers, gangsters, and gamblers] there wouldn't be no jazz! They supported the club owners who bought the music. It wasn't the middle-class people who said Let's go hear Charlie Parker tonight.

  Betty Carter
  American jazz singer
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. middle-class
2. gangsters
3. gamblers]
4. supported
5. charlie
6. tonight

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If it wasn't for [pimps, prostitutes, hustlers, gangsters, and gamblers] there wouldn't be no jazz! They supported the club owners who bought the music. It wasn't the middle-class people who said Let's go hear Charlie Parker tonight. by : Betty Carter

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