“My point is to highlight why current nostalgia for the organic community black Americans supposedly lost with the success of the civil rights movement is so frighteningly shortsighted and dangerous”
“As glam rock waned and disco had yet to wax, punk style provided the perfect cultural jolt, a new kind of 'No!' that brought together fashion, music, press, and politics to tell the world a story England still can't be too eager to bear”
“Woodward is hardly trying to cripple a presidency. (He's already done that, right?) But like his fellow permanent Washingtonians, he thinks it only fitting to put Clinton in his place.”
“Put him in a raincoat and trademark fedora and have him walk the streets of metropolitan America, and he comes alive on screen. His cockiness and swagger make sense on a street”
“Nobody who played jazz was considered able to walk in and do a studio call. They were convinced you couldn't read, or you wouldn't show up, or you'd fall down drunk”
“Many jazz musicians don’t like singers, and some will go to great lengths to avoid playing for them. Not without reason. Frank Sinatra is a rare exception.”
