Jazz

🇮🇳Zakir Hussain (politician)

Politics

1934–2019

"I have after years of thinking on the subject come to the conviction that work is the only instrument of effective education. It may sometimes be manual work, at others, non-manual work."

🇺🇸Barbra Streisand

Music

b. 1942

"A person who's a bitch would seem to be mean for no reason. I'm not a mean person. Maybe I'm rude without being aware of it — that's possible."

"A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste."

🇺🇸Charlie Parker

Music

1920–1955

"Kerouac Alley - Charlie Parker directory"

🇺🇸Wynton Marsalis

Art

b. 1961

"They take your drawers off for you, they show your ass, they sell bullshit, they call themselves 'niggaz' and the women 'bitches' and 'hos' and it's fine with everybody. That's what the essence of decadence is."

🇺🇸Nat Hentoff

Journalism

1925–2017

"I'm always intrigued at how few people understand that free speech encompasses a little more than the speech you like."

🇺🇸Chick Corea

Music

1941–2021

"An Interview with Chick Corea" by Bob Rosenbaum"

🇺🇸Artie Shaw

Music

1910–2004

"It became such a hit that it superseded anything that any band had ever had. It was the first time that a so-called swing band played something melodic and still gave it a beat."

🇺🇸Sun Ra

Music

1914–1993

"The Sun Ra Guide" by John F. Szwed in The Village Voice"

🇺🇸George Gershwin

Music

1898–1937

"I frequently hear music in the heart of noise."

🇺🇸Johnny Mercer

Music

1909–1976

"publicity agent … went to hear Father Divine and he had a sermon and his subject was 'you got to accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative.' And I said 'Wow, that's a colorful phrase!'"

"Jazz musicians have some outlaw in them somewhere if they are serious about this music...The is no valid motivation for it other than love– outlaw motivation in a profit-motivated society."

🇬🇧Philip Larkin

Literature

1922–1985

"What was the rock my gliding childhood struck, / And what bright unreal path has led me here?"

🇺🇸Irving Caesar

Music

1895–1996

"Irving Caesar at the Internet Broadway Database"

🇺🇸Studs Terkel

Literature

1912–2008

"I was walking downstairs carrying a drink in one hand and a book in the other. Don't try that after ninety."

🇺🇸Amiri Baraka

Literature

Beat Generation

1934–2014

"I guess I was the most unbohemian of all bohemians. My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get involved with the stupid stuff that I thought people wanted you to get involved with — ... namely America..."

🇺🇸W. C. Handy

Music

1873–1958

"I think America concedes that has sprung from the negro. When we take these things that come from the art of the Negro and from the heart of the man farthest down."

🇮🇳Zakir Hussain (musician)

Music

1951–2024

"Every time you step out on to the stage, you learn something which helps you grow and be a better communicator. It’s not like you’re the master. You’re always a student."