Lipton’s Journal/December 31, 1954/134

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Jazz is more creative, more responsive to genius than classical music—but its origins are degraded and its expression is invariably degraded. Truly, only in degraded forms can genius express itself today. Jazz is to classical as the whore is to acting, the stripper to dancing, and so forth. It is degraded expression.