By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.

Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have don…

Gray skies are just clouds passing over.

'Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.'

Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for t…

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.