Scat Singing Quotes

“Jazz was not in its heart a singing medium, and if the public insisted on words anyway, Louis Armstrong's response was instinctively right--to sing nonsense, sing scat. Use the human voice purely as an instrument, and make clear that that's what you're doing. Jazz tells its own stories. It doesn't need words, and scat is simply jazz's way of saying, 'Get lost.”
― Wilfrid Sheed, The House That George Built: With a Little Help from Irving, Cole, and a Crew of About Fifty