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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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. – Isadora Duncan

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Feminism
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I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night, and the caprices, the way of looking at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me. – 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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What kills me is that everybody thinks I like jazz. – Samuel L. Jackson

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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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Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the revealing of self. Here I be. Not for long, but here I be. In sensing her mortality, we sensed our own. – Studs Terkel

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