The Art Snob Will Stand Back From

A Truly Appreciative Child Will Break, Lose, Spoil, Or Fondle To Death Any Really Successful Gift Within A Matter Of Minutes.

Wasting Time Is Negative, But There Is Something Positive About Idleness.

Are You Always This Stupid Or Are You Making A Special Effort Today?

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.

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.