“Jazz will endure as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains ”
“The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.”
“Jazz is the false liquidation of art — instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.”
“What was it about high school that made people think with their insecurities instead of their brains?”
“He took comfort in the neon signs, the wild strands of jazz creeping out of clubs whenever happy swells of people pushed through the doors in their finery.”
“To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.”