Terry Teachout Quotes

As late as the early '50s, jazz was still, for the most part, a genuinely popular music, a utilitarian, song-based idiom to which ordinary people could dance if they felt like it.

Terry Teachout

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 6, 1956

Topics

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Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

Alvin Ailey

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I think the more diversity that one has in his life, the happier he can be, as long as he is able to do whatever he chooses to do at that given time well.

Steven Seagal

LifeTimeDiversityThinkLongMore

I may be the prat in the hat, that's cool, but I drive an Aston Martin DB5.

Jay Kay

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Even without seeing the crickets, grasshoppers, cicadas and katydids, we hear them shrilling in this season and trust that they're the tiny living gargoyles entomologists claim.

Diane Ackerman

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Jazz is such a living art form. It happens right in the moment. You weave a story by changing certain elements and components.

Dianne Reeves

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We question these issues of race and struggle and white privilege because we know that those issues are real and because those issues have real implications in black communities. And white supremacy is not only dangerous, but it is deadly.

DeRay Mckesson

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It's so jarring to go from Baghdad to Cambridge, to go from a place where people are fighting and striving and dying to a place where the biggest concern is what kind of cheese to put in your sandwich.

Dexter Filkins

PeopleFightingPlaceStrivingKind

People underestimate the complexity of comic books.

Cheo Hodari Coker

PeopleUnderestimateComplexityBooks

I don't know one of my friends who is considered a conservative who has not had to go back and thoroughly think through everything. You do a lot of soul-searching - 'cause we are not going to win any popularity contests.

Clarence Thomas

WinThinkFriendsYouBackKnow

When you buy a jacket, you pick the size to ensure it fits. Similarly, we live in a universe in which the amount of dark energy fits our biological make-up. If the amount of dark energy were substantially different from what we've measured, the environmental conditions would be inhospitable to our form of life.

Brian Greene

LifeLiveEnvironmentalEnergyYou

I am a village boy, and Amsterdam for me was always the big town.

Anton Corbijn

I AmMeVillageBoyAlwaysBig

I would like that no citizen of the state feels alone and helpless. The entire nation is with them.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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