Famous quotes containing the words jazz and/or masterpiece:
“The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it moves into academic concert-hall lifelessness, which can be replicated by any middle class showing off its music lessons.”
—Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)
“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)