Famous quotes containing the words jazz and/or masterpiece:
“The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it moves into academic concert-hall lifelessness, which can be replicated by any middle class showing off its music lessons.”
—Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)
“A masterpiece is ... something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it’s there complete in the mind, if only at the back.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)