"Jazz" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... cymbals, flageolets, snare drums, and rattles, or other noise-makers. The result is an indescribable hubbub; a garish human kaleidoscope, accompanied by fiendish clamor and unmusical noises which fairly outstrip a dozen jazz bands. It is bedlam let loose, a scene of wild uproar ...
— Inca Land - Explorations in the Highlands of Peru • Hiram Bingham
... just at this moment, when the jazz band was breaking into its most beguiling number, that Quin's eyes and the girl's eyes met in a glance of mutual desire. History repeated itself. Once again, "with total disregard for his personal safety, Sergeant Graham assumed command when his officer ...
— Quin • Alice Hegan Rice
... celebrating her fifteenth birthday that Ingred had been eligible as one of his pupils. He had the reputation of being peppery tempered, therefore she walked into the room to take her first lesson with her heart performing a sort of jazz dance under her jersey. Dr. Linton, like many musicians, was of an artistic and excitable temperament, and highly eccentric. Instead of sitting by the side of his new pupil, he paced the room, pursing his lips in and out, and ...
— A Popular Schoolgirl • Angela Brazil
... learnt at last to jazz? Come take my arm, my clomplish boy;" O hectic day! Cheero! Cheeray! ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, January 14, 1920 • Various
... of tobacco smoke and over the noise of a jazz orchestra and the chatter of a dozen similar conversations. Hugh was excited but not really interested. The Nu Deltas invited him to their house every evening, but they were not making a great fuss over him. Perhaps they weren't going ...
— The Plastic Age • Percy Marks
... may arise from an unfortunate mistake made at a Jazz Competition held in London last week. It appears that the prize was awarded to a lady suffering from hysteria who was ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, June 11, 1919 • Various
... turn 'em away. I've got a new pianist; you'll want to hear him. He looks like a Sealyhan terrier, but he's got a repertoire like a catalogue of phonograph records. I dare the audience to name anything he can't play right off the bat—songs, opera, Gregorian chants, sonatas, jazz—and if he can't play it, the person that asked for it ...
— Rope • Holworthy Hall
... simplified by lopping off the greater part of the premise. For these writers seem to hold that the only important question for the white men of South Africa is, how indefinitely to grow fat on ostrich feathers and diamond mines, and dance jazz dances over the misery and degradation of a whole race of fellow-beings of a different colour from their own. Possibly they believe that moral laws have a special domesticated breed of comfortable concessions for the service of the people in power. Possibly they ignore the fact that commercial and ...
— Creative Unity • Rabindranath Tagore
... was over for the day, the party "did" Theatre Street, where our own movie queens reigned beside some poster depicting a Japanese soldier fighting a dragon. Byron Mauzy told us that our jazz music is often called for and that pianos with a specially made case to withstand the ...
— The Log of the Empire State • Geneve L.A. Shaffer
... violin, the orchestra. Yet we also have rag-time, which is a reaction from the nervous tension of American commercial life, a swinging back to the old days when man, though a brute, was free. There is release and exhilaration in the barbaric, syncopated songs and in the animal-like motions of the jazz dances with their wild and passionate attitudes, their unrestrained rhythms, and their direct appeal to sex. These rag-time melodies, coming straight from the jungles of Africa through the negro, call to impulses in man that are ...
— White Shadows in the South Seas • Frederick O'Brien
... Man. "Was she ever in a Band? In a Jazz Band, you know, with Bantam Rooster whistles? And drums ...
— Fairy Prince and Other Stories • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
... famous darky jazz band was in full swing. There was lilt and rhythm to the melody produced by the grinning blacks, and not a free arm or foot or shoulder or head of any of them but did not sway in ...
— The Film Mystery • Arthur B. Reeve
... you think that the unrestrained performance of Jazz-music conduces to the moral betterment of the simian proletariat?—That seems to me to be a question which bears on the administration of ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, May 21, 1919. • Various
... as she capered around in preparation for the evening's activities. Molly was always jolly, if not singing she would be "chirping" as her brother Martin termed the queer sort of lispy whistle she indulged in, and even while dressing, it was a practice of hers to vary the operations with home-made jazz. ...
— The Girl Scout Pioneers - or Winning the First B. C. • Lillian C Garis
... crash the jazz came to an end. Almost immediately another orchestra took up the running, and the strains of a valse ...
— Berry And Co. • Dornford Yates
... and metropolitan community was a rocky waste. We are accustomed to swift civic transformations in America but Johannesburg surpasses any exhibit that we can offer in this line. Once called "a tin town with a gold cellar," it has the atmosphere of a continuous cabaret with a jazz ...
— An African Adventure • Isaac F. Marcosson |
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