Jazz Instrumental Performance

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

    “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)

    “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)

    “Kind are her answers,
    But her performance keeps no day;
    Breaks time, as dancers,
    From their own music when they stray.”
    —Thomas Campion (1567–1620)