Famous quotes containing the words jazz and/or critics:
“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.”
—Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)
“There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)