Modern Jazz Performances

Famous quotes containing the words modern, jazz and/or performances:

“The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

“There’s more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that’s because the audience doesn’t really know what’s happening.”
—Pat Metheny (b. 1954)

“At one of the later performances you asked why they called it a “miracle,”
Since nothing ever happened. That, of course, was the miracle
But you wanted to know why so much action took on so much life
And still managed to remain itself, aloof, smiling and courteous.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)