Jazz

Jazz music

• "Jazz is the false liquidation of art -- instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture."
  • Theodor Adorno, quoted in The Sociology of Rock by Simon Frith, 1978. ISBN 0094602204.

• "Jazz is something Negroes invented, and it said the most profound things -- not only about us and the way we look at things, but about what modern democratic life is really about. It is the nobility of the race put into sound ... jazz has all the elements, from the spare and penetrating to the complex and enveloping. It is the hardest music to play that I know of, and it is the highest rendition of individual emotion in the history of Western music."
  • Wynton Marsalis

• "There is nothing but jazz."
  • Konrad Stragier in a poem

• "Jazz is not a 'form' but a collection of tags and tricks."
  • Ernest Newman . The Sunday Times, "The World of Music", 4 September 1927.