Instrumental Jazz Performance

Famous quotes containing the words instrumental, jazz and/or performance:

    “I guard this box, as I would the instrumental parts of my religion, to help my mind on to something better.”
    —Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

    “There’s more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that’s because the audience doesn’t really know what’s happening.”
    —Pat Metheny (b. 1954)

    “Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.”
    —G.C. (Georg Christoph)