"Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact."

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When I think about, say, 1995, or whever the last moment was before most of us were on the internet and had mobile phones, it seems like a hundred years ago. ... Time passed in fairly large units, or at least not in milliseconds and constant updates. A few hours wasn't such a long time to go between moments of contact with your work, your people or your trivia.

— Rebecca Solnit