Famous quotes containing the words western and/or jazz:
“Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.”
—Octavio Paz (b. 1914)
“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)