Authors: Nat Shapiro
ISBN-13: 9780306801389, ISBN-10: 0306801388
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Date Published: March 1981
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Nat Shapiro is a distinguished critic and historian of popular and classical music. He is the author of An Annotated Index of American Popular Songs (six volumes) and coauthor of The Jazz Makers and Hear Me talkin' to Ya (with Nat Hentoff). In addition he has produced hundreds of records--from Barbra Streisand and Lotte Lenya to Mahalia Jackson and Michel LeGrand.
"Collected here for the first time are more than 2,000 wise and witty quotations on every type of music and musicians, from Plato to Igor Stravinsky, Duke Ellington, Frank Sinatra, John Lennon, and a h"