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It Is Always Well To Accept Your Own Shortcomings With Candor But To Regard Those Of Your Friends With Polite Incredulity.

In My Estimation, The Only Thing That Is More To Be Guarded Against Than Bad Taste Is Good Taste.

I'd Agree With You, But Then We'd Both Be Wrong.

A Lady Is Nothing Very Specific. One Man's Lady Is Another Man's Woman; Sometimes, One Man's Lady Is Another Man's Wife. Definitions Overlap But They Almost Never Coincide.

Improvisation Was The Blood And Bone Of Jazz, And In The Classic, New Orleans Jazz It Was Collective Improvisation In Which Each Performer, Seemingly Going His Own Melodic Way, Played In Harmony, Dissonance, Or Counterpoint With The Improvisations Of His Colleagues. Quite Unlike Ragtime, Which Was Written Down In Many Cases By Its Composers And Could Be Repeated Note For Note (if Not Expression For Expression) By Others, Jazz Was A Performer's Not A Composer's Art.