The Jazz Age Quotes
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The Jazz Age Quotes & Sayings
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People don't pay much attention to you when you are second best. I wanted to see what it felt like to be number one.
— Florence Griffith Joyner
We couldn't go on indefinitely being swept off our feet.
— Zelda Fitzgerald
Sport is imposing order on what was chaos.
— Antony Starr
I never starved myself.
— Tatjana Patitz
You are not the drop in the ocean, but the ocean in the drop.
— Deepak Chopra
Patience to the spider
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
I see no reason to suppose these machines will ever force themselves into general use.
— Duke Of Wellington
Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.
— Paul Whiteman
Any asshole can write a tone-row. It takes a composer to write a tune.
— Leonard Bernstein
Today Jazz music is performed & listened to by people of all ethnicity, backgrounds, ages & creeds.
— Michelle Obama
In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.
— Bonnie Raitt
So this is feminist corner then.
— Prince Philip
I loved music from the age of eight. Jazz and blues. But also Little Richard and Elvis Presley.
— Bryan Ferry
I was never in the business of trying to put my name out there - I was really focused on music and records and being in the studio.
— Ariel Rechtshaid
I don't like to search too much. I find it is easier when romance finds you.
— Michelle Trachtenberg
He cared only about people; he was scarcely conscious of places except for their weather, until they had been invested with color by tangible events.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.
— Baz Luhrmann
January 7 arrived and looked like January 7. The streets were full of gray, frozen people without money.
— Maj Sjowall
Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.
— William Kennedy
A gripper of a read ... Silence revives the cliff's-edge drama of those Jazz age climbs and drives home the tragedy of Mallory's death.
— Bruce Barcott
Roscoe was spiritually illegal, a bootlegger of the soul, a mythic creature made of words and wit and wild deeds and boundless memory.
— William Kennedy
My grandfather is Portuguese. He betrayed what was expected of him and married my grandmother of African descent on my father's side.
— Fred D'Aguiar
I started doing theater at the age of six. I also took tap and jazz lessons. I refused to take ballet, which is one of my biggest regrets to this day.
— Brandon Uranowitz