“Jazz music hashaunted America for seventy years.It has tempted us out of our lily-white reserve with its black promise of untrammeled joy.” YearsAmericaJoyBlackWhitePromiseJazzReservesSeventiesTemptedJazz MusicLilies Author:John Clellon Holmes
“What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.” KindMeanBlackTermWorstConditionsMusicianAbusePrejudiceJazzExploitationNastyWorking Conditions Author:Maxim Gorky
“But black folks have never really been optimists. We've been prisoners of hope, and hope is qualitatively different from optimism in the way that there's a difference between The Blues and Lawrence Welk. The Blues and Jazz have to do with hope while the other is sugarcoated music which has to do with sentimental optimism.” WayDifferentBlackDifferencesOptimismJazzFolksPrisonerSentimentalOptimist Author:Cornel West
“I've always loved black culture; I don't know any other way to put it. Since I was a kid I loved music and early jazz, Sly and the Family Stone.” KnowsWayKidsCultureBlackStonesJazzSlyBlack Culture Author:Robert Greene
“The black hole in democracy is integrity. The great unspoken is integrity. When integrity is not first and foremost, it's quite palpable but not visible. It's always there. Jazz highlights it because musicians and jazz always represented a high level of integrity.” FirstsBlackLevelsDemocracyIntegrityMusicianJazzHolesVisibleUnspokenHighlightsHigh LevelBlack Hole Author:Wynton Marsalis
“All the forms of popular music from jazz to hip-hop, to bebop, to soul [come from black innovation]. You talk about different dances from the catwalk, to the jitterbug, to the Charleston, to break dancing -\-\ all these are forms of black dancing...What would [life] be without a song, without a dance, and joy and laughter, and music.” DifferentSoulFormLife IsJoySongBlackBreakLaughterInnovationDancingJazzHip HopHipsHopsPopular MusicCharlestonCatwalkBebop Author:Michael Jackson