- performed on by Dostojevsky Kwartet on 26 January 2020 in Stijkkwartet Biennale, Muziekgebouw Amsterdam.

"A few other flowers may be as sweet, but jasmine is sweet without sentiment, sweet without effeteness, sweet without compromise; it is aggressively sweet, outrageously sweet: 
'I am sweet,' says the jasmine, 'and if you don't like it, you can kiss my sweet ass.' "
- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume (1984)

"His movements are never so exaggerated that they lack control, and there is an unmistakable dignity about his most violent figures... Of all the ballroom dances these prying eyes have seen, 
the Jitterbug is unquestionably the finest."
- John Martin, The New York Times (1944)

"When a person dies, their heart is weighed in balance against a feather on a golden scale. If the scale tips towards the feather, the person may spend the rest of eternity as he or she chooses. Light-heartedness, perhaps, is the key to immortality."
- Anubis (2686 B.C.)

"It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing."
- Duke Ellington (1943)

Jitterbug Quartet - string quartet

Wilma Pistorius