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"It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage." Duncan, Isadora on jazz
"It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage."
Duncan, Isadora on jazz
"What kills me is that everybody thinks I like jazz." Jackson, Samuel L. on jazz
"What kills me is that everybody thinks I like jazz."
Jackson, Samuel L. on jazz
"The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it moves into academic concert-hall lifelessness, which can be replicated by any middle class showing off its music lessons." Jones, Imamu Amiri Baraka on jazz
"The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it moves into academic concert-hall lifelessness, which can be replicated by any middle class showing off its music lessons."
Jones, Imamu Amiri Baraka on jazz
"Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning." King, B. B. on jazz
"Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning."
King, B. B. on jazz
"There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening." Metheny, Pat on jazz
"There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening."
Metheny, Pat on jazz
"Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance." Sagan, Francoise on jazz
"Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance."
Sagan, Francoise on jazz
"Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the revealing of self. Here I be. Not for long, but here I be. In sensing her mortality, we sensed our own." Terkel, Studs on jazz
"Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the revealing of self. Here I be. Not for long, but here I be. In sensing her mortality, we sensed our own."
Terkel, Studs on jazz
"Jazz is the art of skipping obvious convention while still following it." Parslow, Eric on jazz
"Jazz is the art of skipping obvious convention while still following it."
Parslow, Eric on jazz
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