Freedom Is, Freedom Ain’t Quotes

“Outside of Yale and its American Studies department, I owe a great debt to Sumanth Gopinath and Peter Curtis, who lent me their subtle understanding of music theory and their finely tuned ears and who encouraged my blustery incursions into the domain of musicology;”
― Scott Saul, Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties

“Scratch any musician," jazz scholar John Szwed has said, "and you find a crypto-Pythagorean.”
― Scott Saul, Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties