Contemporary Jazz Performance

Famous quotes containing the words contemporary, jazz and/or performance:

    “Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic formations.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “There’s more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that’s because the audience doesn’t really know what’s happening.”
    —Pat Metheny (b. 1954)

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    —Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)