Famous quotes containing the words jazz and/or masterpiece:
“The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former the music is always greater than its performance—Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, for instance, is always greater than its performance—whereas the way jazz is performed is always more important than what is being performed.”
—André Previn (b. 1929)
“A masterpiece is ... something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it’s there complete in the mind, if only at the back.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)