Echoes Of The Jazz Age Quotes

It was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess and it was an age of satire.

The word jazz in its progress toward respectability has meant first sex, then dancing then music. It is associated with a state of nervous stimulation, not unlike that of big citiesbehind the lines of a war.

And it seemed only a question of a few years before the older people would step aside and let the world be run by those who saw things as they were - and it all seems rosy and romantic to us who were young then, because we will never feel quite so intensely about our surroundings anymore.