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“It's not jazz as we know jazz here in America.”

Knows America Jazz

Author:Les Paul

“I'd have no trouble being the barbecue kingpin of America. I'd just add it to all the other things I am: jazz musician, carpenter, architect, engineer and revolutionary.”

America Trouble Musician Add Jazz Revolutionary Architect Engineers Jazz Music Carpenter Barbecue Jazz Musician

Author:Bobby Seale

“Holy flowers floating in the air, were all these tired faces in the dawn of Jazz America.”

America Faces Air Flower Holy Tired Jazz Dawn Floating

Book:Road Novels 1957-1960

Source: Road Novels 1957-1960

“Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.”

America Energy Results Jazz Gershwin

Author:George Gershwin

“I know jazz is completely un-American. But the reason why America doesn't like it is because it's not funny. We [americans] have made jazz funny.”

Knows Made Reason America Jazz Reason Why

Author:Paul Provenza

“Fitzgerald could sense that America was poised on the edge of a vast transformation, and wrote a novel bridging his moment and ours. The Great Gatsby made manifest precisely what Fitzgerald’s contemporaries couldn’t bear to see, and thus it is not only the Jazz Age novel par excellence, but also the harbinger of its decline and fall.”

Made Moments Age America Fall Novel Bears Transformation Jazz Excellence Edges Manifest Decline Harbinger Jazz Age

Book:Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby

Source: Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby

“When I was young, I never bought records because my brother Joseph played saxophone and had a record player. I loved listening to his records: The Dorsey Brothers, Duke Ellington, all the big American jazz bands, and vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald, Ernestine Anderson, and Kitty White, a singer from the US who was a friend of Nina Simone. Nobody in America seems to know about her, but she was quite popular in South Africa.”

Knows Bigs Seems America Young White Records Player Brother Listening Band Jazz South Singers My Brother South Africa Dukes Saxophone Kitties Nina Vocalist Jazz Band Record Players

Author:Miriam Makeba

“Jazz music hashaunted America for seventy years.It has tempted us out of our lily-white reserve with its black promise of untrammeled joy.”

Years America Joy Black White Promise Jazz Reserves Seventies Tempted Jazz Music Lilies

Author:John Clellon Holmes

“jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force.”

Self America Force Music Expression Jazz Sensual Lyrical Potency

Author:Anais Nin

“No matter how much people want to pretend that they're embarrassed by it, that they don't watch it, everybody knows about it. It's truly, I believe, one of the only art forms that America has actually given to the world, besides jazz and comic books.”

People Knows World Want Believe Art Book Matter America Form Given I Believe Watches Jazz Comic Comic Book Embarrassed

Author:CM Punk

“Negro music has touched America because it is the melody of the soul joined with the rhythm of the machine. It is in two part time; tears in the heart; movement of the legs, torso arms and head. The music of the era of construction; innovating. It floods the body and heart; it floods the USA and its floods the world. The jazz is more advanced than the architecture. If architecture were at the point reached by jazz, it would be an incredible spectacle.”

Ifs World Heart Two Soul Body Would Be America Movement Tears Arms Machines Jazz Incredibles Legs Architecture Rhythm Eras Usa Touched Melody Construction Flood Part Time Torso

Author:Le Corbusier