Contemporary Jazz Performance

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

    “Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.”
    —W.H. (Wystan Hugh)

    “It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.”
    —Isadora Duncan (1878–1927)

    “No performance is worth loss of geniality. ‘Tis a cruel price we pay for certain fancy goods called fine arts and philosophy.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)