Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.
Kathy Acker
My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.
Neil Young
Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.
Louis Armstrong
I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me.
Travis Barker
It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.
Isadora Duncan
You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?
Charlie Watts
If it has more than three chords, it's jazz.
Lou Reed