In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically…

I play more rhythmically than I do a lot of notes.

— Bobby Keys

I had great difficulties learning to play initially because I could not think rhythmically properly, although it's an even-paced rhythm, I was not phrasing…

— Richard Meale

I started singing rhythmically, and now I'm learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it

— Janis Joplin

Between the ages of 10-14, I did ballet, modern and tap. So I may have a few dancing bones in my body, but I'm…

— John Whaite

If one thing got off rhythmically, everything would collapse

— Barry Doyle Harris

As a drummer, I'm rhythmically so disabled that it's hilarious.

— Devin Townsend

Each track has to be precise, and that is a problem on a rhythmically complex track like 'Slaughtered.'

— Dimebag Darrell

“The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in…

— Jack Kerouac

We were all influenced by Lester [Young]. Listen to the records that he made with [Count] Basie. Nobody's got what he's got. He's still…

— Zoot Sims

I'll always remember when I first heard Lester [Young]. I'd never heard anyone like him before. He was a stylist with a different sound.…

— Count Basie

I used to live at the Cecil Hotel, which was next door to Minton's [Playhouse]. We used to jam just about every night when…

— Ben Webster

When I was 16 or 17 I heard the Count Basie band with Jo Jones and Lester Young and Herschel Evans and I couldn't…

— Illinois Jacquet

I'd been studying the microphone for a dozen years, and I suddenly saw what I'd been doing wrong. I'd been singing too loud. One…

— Marvin Gaye

As much as I think John Coltrane belongs on the list, I think without Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young, both of whom defined improvising…

— Herbie Mann

In those days before hearing Charlie Parker and Dizzy, and before learning of the so-called bebop era--by the way, I have some thoughts about…

— J. J. Johnson