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Terry Teachout Quotes

American - Critic | February 6, 1956 -

Even if I could, I wouldn't want to undo the transformation of jazz into a sophisticated art music.

Music Art Transformation Want Jazz

No, I don't know how to get young people to start listening to jazz again. But I do know this: Any symphony orchestra that thinks it can appeal to under-30 listeners by suggesting that they 'should' like Schubert and Stravinsky has already lost the battle.

People Listening Start Battle Jazz

What's the funniest play ever written? I used to think it was 'Noises Off,' but now that I've seen 'The Liar,' I'm not so sure.

Liar Think Play Now Seen Used

It's said that most Americans under the age of 30 reflexively dislike movies made before 1970, especially those that were shot in black and white. If this is so, I suspect it's because such films portray an America that no longer exists.

Age Black And White Black America

Limitations, be they practical or arbitrary, force artists to dig more deeply instead of settling for easy answers.

Easy More Answers Limitations Force

A playwright who limits himself - or is limited - to a handful of characters is forced to concentrate on the essentials of the situation that he has chosen to portray.

Limits Situation Chosen Who Forced

For my part, I like live theater best when it's taut, concentrated and intimate.

Live Best Like Theater Live Theater

The digital apocalypse continues to blight the lives of television producers, music-industry executives and newspaper publishers, all of whom are scrambling to figure out how to reconfigure their business models in such a way as to allow them to make an honest buck.

Business Television Newspaper Way

Everybody in America was talking about TV early in 1949, though comparatively few Americans owned a set of their own.

America Talking Early Own Set TV

Americans of all ages embraced TV unhesitatingly. They felt no loyalty to network radio, the medium that had entertained and informed them for a quarter-century. When something came along that they deemed superior, they switched off their radios without a second thought.

Loyalty Thought Without Radio Off

In 2004, the iPod was a novelty, and tablet computers were a dream. Now we take for granted that we can see whatever we want whenever and wherever we want to see it, be it 'Grand Illusion' or 'Duck Dynasty.'

Computers Duck Dream Take For Granted

'Man and Superman,' first performed in 1905, is by common consent one of George Bernard Shaw's greatest and most significant plays, yet hardly anybody performs it today, for the understandable reason that an uncut performance runs for about five hours.

Today Man Performance Superman First

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