Quote by Isadora Duncan
It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage. – Isadora Duncan

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So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance. – Isadora Duncan

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Before I was born my mother was in great agony of spirit and in a tragic situation. She could take no food except iced oysters and champagne. If people ask me when I began to dance, I reply, In my mothers womb, probably as a result of the oysters and champagne – the food of Aphrodite. – Isadora Duncan

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Theres more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe thats because the audience doesnt really know whats happening. – Pat Metheny

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Jazz is the art of skipping obvious convention while still following it. – Eric Parslow

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Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance. – Francoise Sagan

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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 Jones

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