Kurt Vonnegut Quotes About Jazz

Quotes about: Jazz

• What is my definition of jazz? "Safe sex of the highest order."

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Music, Sex, Order

  Kurt Vonnegut (2008). “Armageddon in Retrospect”, p.26, Penguin

• Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters or novelists of my time. Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Comforting, Comedian, Musician

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books

• What has been America's most nurturing contribution to the culture of this planet so far? Many would say jazz. I, who love jazz, will say this instead: Alcoholics Anonymous.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  America, Culture, Jazz

• Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Littles, Jazz, Opinion

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books

• And what gift of America to the rest of the world is actually most appreciated by the rest of the world? It is African American jazz and its offshoots. What is my definition of jazz? Safe sex of the highest order.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Sex, Order, America

  Kurt Vonnegut (2008). “Armageddon in Retrospect”, p.26, Penguin

• I will say, too, that lovemaking, if sincere, is one of the best ideas Satan put in the apple she gave to the serpent to give to Eve. The best idea in that apple, though, is making jazz.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Ideas, Apples, Giving

  Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.84, Penguin

• What I would really like to have been, given a perfect world, is a jazz pianist. I mean jazz. I don't mean rock and roll. I mean the never-the-same-twice music the American black people gave the world.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Mean, Rocks, Rock And Roll

• One of the things I'm going to say out there is how grateful I am - and how grateful the world is - for the tremendous gift of the black people, of jazz.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Grateful, People, Black

• I don't know what anybody else in the world would want to thank America for, but man, it [jazz] works. What I like about it - and what public health people ought to like about it - it's safe sex.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Sex, Men, America

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