Malcolm Young Quotes

Jazz is about being in the moment.

The main three components are the blues, improvisation - which is some kind of element that people are trying to make it up - and swing, which means even though they're making up music, they're trying to make it up together. It feels great, like you're having a great conversation with somebody.

You can learn steps, but you cannot learn how to boogie.

When I first saw tap dancing, I immediately got it: the righteousness of being able to make so much noise with your feet!

Jazz is the music of the body.

I tap dance.

Rhythm is sound in motion. It is related to the pulse, the heartbeat, the way we breathe. It rises and falls. It takes us into ourselves; it takes us out of ourselves.

I'm a singer who moves like a dancer.

There's not much music I'll listen to if it doesn't have pretty heavy swing. Rhythm is so important. Punk rock would have more power and feeling if it had swing.

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

I just love dancing. When the music is really hitting my soul, then I really want to get into it.

I've listened to musicians who say that using a metronone makes you robotic, that it decreases your 'feel.' That's ridiculous. Either you have feel or you don't. Feel is one of those intangibles that can't be taught. But if you do have feel, using a metronome will allow you to play cleaner - and that'll make your 'feel' have more, well, 'feeling.'

I dance as best I can. I try to let the music flow freely through my legs.

Jazz has a lot to do with being very present. You know the structure, then you flow through it.

'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music.

Rhythm is the life of space of time danced through.

As a dancer, I love music that makes me want to move.

I can't dance.

Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.

You get this really cool groove when you're playing just piano, bass, and drums where everyone's sort of feeling each other's space, which is the only way to put it, but it really is true, and everyone's sort of sitting in their own pocket. It's kind of jazz-like.

I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

I would love to learn how to dance. I can pick up choreography pretty well. But when you're dancing with your friends, I can't do that. I'm not a freestyler. It just doesn't come naturally to me. Clapping is my go-to dance.

Tap dancing is all about the feet; you put your head down and don't really engage with anything but the rhythm in your head.

Dancing is kind of my thing.