Unemployed Musicians

Famous quotes containing the words unemployed and/or musicians:

“When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.”
—Jesse Jackson (b. 1941)

“We stand in the tumult of a festival.
What festival? This loud, disordered mooch?
These hospitaliers? These brute-like guests?
These musicians dubbing at a tragedy,
A-dub, a-dub, which is made up of this:
That there are no lines to speak? There is no play.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)