America Quote by Michael Bywater

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

— John Clellon Holmes

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

— Paul Whiteman

That.s what Jazz music is all about.We started the Messengers because somebody had to mind the store for jazz.No America--no Jazz. It is the…

— Art Blakey

“In a decade that would become known as the Roaring Twenties, a “Jazz Age” glamorized in the works of authors like F. Scott Fitzgerald,…

— Charles River Editors

Jazz, and the history of jazz, is the history of America.

— Ron Cephas Jones

There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties,…

— Sonny Rollins

The music changed. We had Irving Berlin and Gershwin and Lerner and Loewe and Cole Porter. Great music. Now we have 'Rent.'

— Cyd Charisse

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

— George Gershwin

Drugs, sex, booze, all the stuff that we wanted to do. The problem was that we didn't want to learn the top 40 'cause…

— Wayne Kramer

The Four Seasons was making me popular in Britain, but EMI America had no interest in making that happen in the States, so I…

— Nigel Kennedy

Year in and year out, under the guise of the Ridiculous, we attempt the Sublime.

— Charles Ludlam

I just saw a recent television program about art, and it was saying how from the end of the Second World War, so much…

— Robert Wyatt