Quotes by : Ted Gioia

When stealing from other players, an older musician wisely advised me, choose a different instrument....

By the way, this tells you why Auto-Tuned vocals on many contemporary records sound so shallow and lifeless.....

The work of art always requires us to adapt to it—and in this manner can be distinguished from escapism....

Art and disease proliferate via contagion, and similar conditions favor both.

Like the New Orleans tradition that preceded it, and the Swing Era offerings that followed it, Chicago....

The resulting amalgam - an exotic mixture of European, Caribbean, African, and American elements - made....

In every sphere of social interaction, that hermeneutic leap—that ability to put yourself in the mind....

[T]he piano was to Harlem what brass bands had been to New Orleans. The instrument represented conflicting....