David B. Coe Quotes

I listen to instrumental jazz and bluegrass, but aside from my AM workout, I have no rituals.

David B. Coe

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• If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Music
  • Long

• I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Up
  • Player
  • Years

• I'm not saying that in order to be a great jazz musician you have to be a great classical pianist first. But I am saying that it makes things easier when you can get around the instrument, and you have some idea of how to approach the various hurdles.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Musician
  • Jazz
  • Instrument

• I grew up with all these old jazz guys in the '70s in L.A., and they grew up idolizing Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Lester Young - all of these incredible musicians.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Up
  • Old
  • Jazz

• Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing.

  

  Oscar Peterson
  • Style
  • Speak
  • Jazz

• In Malaysia, we have a lot of divas, like Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey singers. And they were all so so talented, just very talented. For example, there's this one jazz singer, her name is Sheila Majid, and I was always singing her songs.

  

  Yuna
  • Singing
  • Name
  • Jazz

• I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • You
  • Jazz
  • Blues

• Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Sense

• The only time my workout goes a little haywire is when I'm travelling.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Time
  • Workout
  • Travelling

• Even though I left for a year, I grew here as a Jazz man. If I'm fortunate enough to go into the Hall of Fame, I will go as a Jazz man.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Man
  • Year
  • Jazz

• It's certainly no coincidence that big bands became the entertainment of the army in WWI and WWII, and that jazz drumming style is very military influenced. The snare drum comes from the military and becomes the core kind of sound of jazz drums.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Style
  • Military
  • Army

• My workout mantra is 'Break a sweat every day.' Even if it's just for 20 minutes. I'm very disciplined about that.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Workout

• I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Way
  • Bible
  • Routine

• I started with ballet, and once I started to really like it, I got into more - I did jazz and tap, and then kept going.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Jazz
  • Ballet
  • Once

• In the '60s, people were still very protective of each field that they belonged to. Avant-garde artists didn't know about rock or pop or jazz. And the jazz people of course didn't want to know about any other music. They were all just kind of protecting their territory.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Music
  • Rock

• The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails.

  

  Federico Garcia Lorca
  • World
  • America
  • Jazz

• My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Dad
  • Reason
  • First

• My workout is my meditation.

  

  Kyle MacLachlan
  • Meditation
  • Workout

• My first play was 'The Room', written when I was twenty-seven.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Play
  • First
  • Room

• The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • God
  • Long
  • Experience

• Won? He’s one of them! How exactly is that winning?” Michael shook his head, moved up behind her, and put his hands on her shoulders. He kissed the nape of her neck gently. “I don’t know, Eve. I’m just telling you what I heard. He got some kind of agreement out of the vampires. And it was because Amelie loved him.” “Yeah, loved him enough to kill him and turn him into a bloodsucking fiend,” Eve said grimly. “How sweet. Romance isn’t dead. Oh, wait. It is.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • Winning
  • Sweet

• As long as they keep building settlements, the world will be anti-Israeli.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • World
  • Long
  • Building

• I listen to instrumental jazz and bluegrass, but aside from my AM workout, I have no rituals.

  

  David B. Coe
  • Jazz
  • Workout
  • Ritual