Jazz Fake Book

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

    “He could jazz up the map-reading class by having a full-size color photograph of Betty Grable in a bathing suit, with a co- ordinate grid system laid over it. The instructor could point to different parts of her and say, “Give me the co-ordinates.”... The Major could see every unit in the Army using his idea.... Hot dog!”
    —Norman Mailer (b. 1923)

    “The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can’t fake it ... try to fake three laughs in an hour—ha ha ha ha ha—they’ll take you away, man. You can’t.”
    —Lenny Bruce (1925–1966)

    “After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year.”
    —Robert Benchley (1889–1945)