Contemporary Jazz Performance

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

    “A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.”
    —Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957)

    “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)

    “O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should our endeavour be so loved, and the performance so loathed?”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)