Elmore Leonard  - Quotes

 I'm very much aware in the writing of dialogue, or even in the narrative too, of a rhythm. There has to be a rhythm with it  

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James Moody  - Quotes

 A family who smokes together, chokes together. 

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Kurt Vonnegut  - Quotes

 What is my definition of jazz? 'Safe sex of the highest order. 

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Theodor W. Adorno  - Quotes

 People know what they want because they know what other people want. 

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Toni Morrison  - Quotes

 Alice thought, No. It wasn't the War and the disgruntled veterans; it wasn't the droves and droves of colored people flocking to paychecks and streets full of themselves. It was the music. The dirty, get-on-down music the women sang and the men played and both danced to, close and shamelesss or apart and wild...It made you do unwise disorderly things. Just hearing it was like violating the law. 

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Theodor W. Adorno  - Quotes

 Jazz is the false liquidation of art  

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Wynton Marsalis  - Quotes

 Jazz is not just 'Well, man, this is what I feel like playing.' It's a very structured thing that comes down from a tradition and requires a lot of thought and study.

 

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Louis Armstrong  - Quotes

 You will never know what the meaning of Jazz is if ask what it means.

 

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Louis Armstrong  - Quotes

 If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. 

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