Jazz Fake Book

Famous quotes containing the words jazz, fake and/or book:

“The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former the music is always greater than its performance—Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, for instance, is always greater than its performance—whereas the way jazz is performed is always more important than what is being performed.”
—André Previn (b. 1929)

“After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.”
—Joseph Brodsky (b. 1940)

“A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)