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)

    “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)

    “The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.”
    —Bible: Hebrew Psalms 90:10.

    The Book of Common Prayer (1662)