Jazz Band Ball

Famous quotes containing the words jazz, band and/or ball:

“It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.”
—Isadora Duncan (1878–1927)

“Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)

“When Adam delved and Eve span,
Who was then the gentleman?”
—John Ball (hanged 1381)