Jazz Instrumental Performance

Famous quotes containing the words jazz, instrumental and/or performance:

    “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)

    “I guard this box, as I would the instrumental parts of my religion, to help my mind on to something better.”
    —Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

    “O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should our endeavour be so loved, and the performance so loathed?”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)