demigods quotes

The demi-monde does not represent the crowd of courtesans, but the class of declassed women† It is divided from that of honest women by public scandal, and divided from that of the courtesans by money.

- Alexandre, fils Dumas
  On the first performance of his play La Dame aux came  lias, 20 Mar, the first recorded use of the phrase. Quoted in  Joanna Richardson The Courtesans (1967), p.227.

Jazz musicians are not demigods. Theyare warm, vulnerablehumanbeings with a desperateneedtogo on paying the rent.

- Bruce Turner
  Hot Air, Cool Music, ch.10.