Basic/standards

Famous quotes containing the words basic and/or standards:

“The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former the music is always greater than its performance—Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, for instance, is always greater than its performance—whereas the way jazz is performed is always more important than what is being performed.”
—André Previn (b. 1929)

“Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.”
—José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)