The form is not going to revolutionize either jazz or poetry but it is going to stay with us, and both jazz and poetry are going to have one new way of expressing themselves, and so are going to be just a little richer.—Kenneth Rexroth
I never drowned out one word of whatever Jack was reading or making up on the spot … and he never drowned out or stepped on a word or interrupted a thought that I or anyone else had … in these late night-early morning get-togethers.—David Amram on collaborating with Jack Kerouac