What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.

Quote by Maxim Gorky

Topics: Jazz Quotes, Music Quotes

In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't...

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't...

Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to...

Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to...

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in...

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in...

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must...

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must...

You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know

You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in...

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in...

In the carriages of the past you can't go anywhere.

In the carriages of the past you can't go anywhere.

Only mothers can think of the future-because they give birth to it in their children.

Only mothers can think of the future-because they give birth to it in their children.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you...

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you...

Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat...

Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat...

It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another...

It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another...

A mother's love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails...

A mother's love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails...

Mothers are all slightly insane.

Mothers are all slightly insane.

But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is...

But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is...

My mother...she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel....

My mother...she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel....

No ordinary work done by a man is either as hard or as responsible as...

No ordinary work done by a man is either as hard or as responsible as...

The only love that I really believe in is a mothers love for her children.

The only love that I really believe in is a mothers love for her children.

All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages

All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages

I love my mother, not as a prisoner of atherosclerosis, but as a person; and...

I love my mother, not as a prisoner of atherosclerosis, but as a person; and...