Famous quotes containing the words jazz, fake and/or book:
“Theres more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe thats because the audience doesnt really know whats happening.”
—Pat Metheny (b. 1954)
“The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You cant fake it ... try to fake three laughs in an hourha ha ha ha hatheyll take you away, man. You cant.”
—Lenny Bruce (19251966)
“Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A really great poet is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.”
—Oscar Wilde (18541900)