Swing Rhythm Quotes

Jazz is a beautiful word. I love it.

Jazz music is the power of now.

You can't teach it [jazz singing]. There's nobody who can teach you how to sing jazz. Either you know how to sing jazz, or you don't.

From a technical viewpoint, I have certain things I'd like to present in my solos. To do this, I have to get the right material. It has to swing, and it has to be varied.

Jazz is not a 'form' but a collection of tags and tricks.

Jazz to me is a living music.

A question I get asked a lot in pro-ams is how I'm able to swing the club as hard as I do. Honestly, I'm not swinging that hard. I'm using about 75 percent of my maximum effort.

Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.

Jazz is restless. It won't stay put & it never will.

That.s what Jazz music is all about.We started the Messengers because somebody had to mind the store for jazz.No America--no Jazz. It is the only culture that America has brought forth.

I feel like there are a lot of positives in my swing. I'm really going to work around the rhythm of my swing, being able to keep my rhythm and being more consistent. Consistency is what I'm looking for, performance-wise.

Jazz is a big thing with me. It's a very big passion of mine, to play it. I'm an amateur musician and I love everything about it. I was obsessed with jazz when I was 15 years old and I know a lot about it because I've loved it so much.

Jazz comes from a tradition where it swings. Swing was the main ingredient of jazz. And once it loses the swing...well, that's it.

I have always loved jazz music and as a teen growing up in New York City and then later on as an adult have great memories of the jazz clubs that were all located on 52nd Street. I still catch as many jazz shows as I can when I am in New York. And when I perform, I have my jazz quartet by my side. Jazz musicians keep things spontaneous and very "live," which is the way I like to perform.

Jazz music just resonates with the frequency of me.

It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz.

I started to play Jazz music in my early teens. A boyfriend brought records over, so I listened to everything

As jazz fans, it was amusing for us to play jazz harmonies on these big, ugly electric guitars.

Jazz is the music of unemployment.

What is my definition of jazz? "Safe sex of the highest order."

Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge.

Jazz I regard as an American folk music; not the only one, but a very powerful one which is probably in the blood and feeling of the American people more than any other style of folk music.

I'd take the syncopation and play swing, and then read the syncopation lines with my left hand.

They say that Jazz is back, and I don't think it's gone anywhere. But they say it's back.

I would say that my downswing mirrors the path of my backswing pretty closely.