Bix Beiderbecke Quotes
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The most important thing is that it's much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That's the main thing I think, that you can do it.
Ikue Mori -
Legislators should demand that we not go through the entire pension reform debate just to apply a band-aid when this patient needs a quadruple bypass.
Walker Stapleton -
The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me.
Gary Clark Jr. -
I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.
Nate Ruess Fun. -
I loved being in a band.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.
Carl Barks
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Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
When you tour with a band, you're just out there, and it's just you guys. That's your little universe. If you do a play, it's the same deal. That becomes your world, for the cast and crew.
Katey Sagal -
Whatever's going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn't happen, then what the hell am I doing? So if I'm writing 'Inglourious Basterds,' and I'm in love with a girl and we break up, that's going to find its way into the piece.
Quentin Tarantino -
Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
W. C. Fields -
California is infamous for passing things and then waking up and saying, 'What the hell did we just pass?'
Gavin Newsom -
When I first started, I worked with my father, Alex 'Little Bill' Wallace; he was a guitarist like B.B. King. I was around 13 when I started, and I learned a lot by looking and listening. I learned how to be a bandleader from watching that band work.
Wadada Leo Smith
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Sure, we've had our fair share of ups and downs, but I don't know if we've had more than any other rock band... we just have a way of getting ourselves into hot water.
Carl Wilson -
I had a blast on tour with Little Big Town. We got to play some beautiful rooms around the country - some really amazing old theaters. And it was just cool to see a band that's been together for so long.
Kacey Musgraves -
The news comes somewhat late, but I'm glad to hear it nevertheless.
Malcolm Campbell -
What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.
Daisy Berkowitz -
Hamp would ask me about tempos in the band: 'Jacquet,' he'd say, 'knock off that tempo.' A lot of jazz musicians didn't prefer to play for dancers, which was their loss, really. But good jazz has always had that dance feel.
Illinois Jacquet -
There were so many specific things from high school jazz band that I remembered: the conductor searching out people who were out of tune, or stopping and starting me for hours in front of the band as they watched.
Damien Chazelle
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I think the band can really swing when it swings easy, when it can just play along like you are cutting butter.
Count Basie -
Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
Oscar Wilde -
Emotional pain is sometimes what we make of it. We can always choose how we react. No matter what the pain, breathing always centers me.
Aleks Paunovic -
My niece was born with cystic fibrosis 15 years ago, and she's incredibly healthy and an incredible competitive dancer, so I'm going to do some events for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
J. R. Bourne -
For what in your life do you feel most grateful?
Daniel Jones Savage Garden -
I'd go to hell to hear a good band.
Bix Beiderbecke