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Quotes About Scat

Jubal waved the man back. "Private," he said firmly. "Family matter. Go have a drink." "Whose family?" "A death in yours, if you insist. Scat!
~ Robert A. Heinlein
After Hiroshima, the musicians understood as early as anyone that Truman's bomb changed everything and only scat and bebop could say how.
~ Toni Morrison
But I do believe there are people in our midst who wish to make a graveyard of the world, and their motivation may be no more complex than that of an angry child flinging scat because he was left with regularity in a dirty diaper.
~ James Lee Burke
motivation may be no more complex than that of an angry child flinging scat because he was left with regularity in a dirty diaper.
~ James Lee Burke
Every good gospel singer you can hear is a scat singer; they're just using different syllables. There are a lot of jazz singers out there, and more coming out of the churches.
~ Al Jarreau
Skaz is a rather appealing Russian word (suggesting jazz and scat, as in scat-singing, to the English ear) used to designate a type of first-person narration that has the characteristics of the spoken rather than the written word.
~ David Lodge
SCAT!" Stink swatted the sandwich out of Judy's hand. He flipped it over. Stink jumped up and pointed. "Oogley-boogley, ugh, ugh, ugh! Judy stared at something brown and squishy on the bottom of her sandwich. "What IS that?" "It's scat! As in doo-doo! Dung! Manure! POOP!" He showed her his sandwich, smeared with brown goo. Judy and Stink hopped up and leaped as far away as they could, falling off their giant teacup and screaming "AGHHHHH!
~ Megan McDonald