How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
Up there, in that part of the City—which is the part they came for—the right tune whistled in the doorway or lifting up from the circles and grooves of a record can change the weather. From freezing to hot to cool. (2.45)
Jazz is pretty awesome music. It was even awesomer back when it was totally new sounding and was breaking all of the musical rules. It's so powerful and sexy that it can definitely raise the temperature in a room (bow chicka bow bow), and it can be so sad that it makes you weep.
Quote #2
They did not know for sure, but they suspected that the dances were beyond nasty because the music was getting worse and worse with each passing season the Lord waited to make Himself known. Songs that used to start in the head and fill the heart had dropped on down, down to places below the sash and the buckled belts. (3.6)
Cue the sultry saxophone solo. Alice is a little flustered by this newfangled music and kids these days, because her understanding of music is pious and about God instead about hooking up with a hot neighbor and wearing scandalous lipstick.
Quote #3
It was the music. The dirty, get-on-down music the woman sang and the men played and both danced to, close and shameless or apart and wild. (3.10)
What would Alice have thought about twerking? We think she would have fainted. But this quote reinforces why 1920s-themed parties are awesome even today: The 1920s saw the advent of the first really sexy dancing. Part of it was totally the lack of corsets, and the other part of it was jazz.