Elmore Leonard Quotes

"I'm very much aware in the writing of dialogue, or even in the narrative too, of a rhythm. There has to be a rhythm with it … Interviewers have said, you like jazz, don’t you? Because we can hear it in your writing. And I thought that was a compliment." — Elmore Leonard

Danny Barker Quotes

"The New Orleans bands, you see, didn't play with a flat sound. They'd shade the music. After the band had played with the two or three horns blowing, they'd let the rhythm have it." - Danny Barker

source: 'Hear Me Talkin' to Ya: The Story of Jazz As Told by the Men Who Made It' (Nat Shapiro, First published 1966)

Isadora Duncan Quotes

"It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage." - Isadora Duncan

Kathy Acker Quotes

"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

Peoples Music Press Quotes

"The rhythm of Jazz is against the normal psychological needs of man." - The Peoples Music Press (Peking, China)

Steve Reid Quotes

"Today's music is driven by the rhythms. That's the key. There are going to be no more Coltranes or Hendrixes: all this shit on the top has been played already! Now it's about mixing the whole thing up with the rhythms. It's not an intellectual thing anymore. It's a feeling." - Steve Reid

John McLaughlin Quotes

"The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture." - John McLaughlin

Charlie Hunter Quotes

"I mean, in the course of an evening, people will take a solo here and there, but generally it's all about the rhythm of that music. Dealing with the rhythm with everything. That's essentially at least my concept of what that group is." - Charlie Hunter