“I looked back on the roaring Twenties, with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby' and the pre-Code films as a party I had somehow managed to miss.” FilmPartyMissingTwentiesJazzCodeRoaringRoaring Twenties Author:Hugh Hefner
“I felt quite frankly having been raised during the depression and looking back at the roaring twenties, the jazz age, which was a very magic timer in my mind because it was something that I had missed.” MindAgeFeltMagicTwentiesJazzRaisedLooking BackRoaringTimerJazz AgeRoaring Twenties Author:Hugh Hefner
“In my teen years and early twenties I was really interested in this fellaheen worlds that, of course, Kerouac invokes and wanting to go below the border and wanting to get to these other places or interstices of the culture where you were encountering the realities of these other kinds of cultures, experiences, language, I think of jazz culture of course.” ThinkingWorldYearsKindRealityCultureCoursesLanguageTwentiesJazzBordersInvoke Author:Anne Waldman
“If the average jazz artist uses his head and at the outset of his career realizes he won't play as well at fifty as he does at twenty-five, he won't be in a line-up outside the Salvation Army when he's fifty.” IfsWellsDoePlayUseArtistRealizingLinesCareersFiveArmyTwentiesSalvationAgingJazzAverageFiftyTwenty FiveSalvation Army Author:Oscar Peterson
“To date, [Wynton] Marsalis has received a total of nine Grammy Awards; a Pulitzer Prize (the first ever awarded to a jazz musician)... and twenty-nine honorary degrees, including Columbia, Brown, Princeton and Yale; the National Medal of Arts; and numerous awards from other countries.” FirstsArtCountryDegreesMusicianTwentiesJazzIncludingNineBrownPrizeAwardsOther CountriesMedalJazz MusicYaleColumbiaJazz MusicianGrammyPrincetonHonorary Book:Where the dark and the light folks meet: race and the mythology, politics, and business of jazz Source: Where the dark and the light folks meet: race and the mythology, politics, and business of jazz
“I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing - even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.” IfsWayWantYearsDoePlayMusicPicksTwentiesJazzWhat You WantFifteenMonkJazz MusicJazz MusicianPlaying Jazz Author:Thelonious Monk