Modern Jazz

Famous quotes containing the words modern and/or jazz:

“This strange disease of modern life,
With its sick hurry, its divided aims.”
—Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)

“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)