Bix Beiderbecke Quotes
Jazz is musical humor. The noun jazz describes a modern American technique for the playing of any music, accompanied by noise called harmony, and interpolated instrumental effects. It also describes music exhibiting influence of that technique which has as its traditional object to secure the effects of surprise, or in the broadest sense, humor.
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I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things.
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Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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Selling is something we do for our clients - not to our clients.
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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.
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There is definitely that thing here a little where people are like 'Oh that Broadway girl has come to Nashville' and I'm like 'Listen you guys, I was singing country before I even got a Broadway show. And I'm from Kentucky.'
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Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
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I was a total fashion insider who became an outsider when I did bridal.
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You have the God-given right to kick the government around - don't hesitate to do so.
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I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.
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I think we brothers realised his loss more and more as we grew older. We actually grew closer after his death.
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I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.
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I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.
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One hopes that with a book or movie, the reader or the audience will emerge from it thinking. That's the most you can hope for: that you've raised questions that will be there for the audience to think about later.
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If you're a single man and you happen to be in this business, you're deemed a player. But I don't see myself as a ladies' man.
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Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
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The thing is, I don't take anything for granted anymore - my family, my music, you name it.
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Jazz is musical humor. The noun jazz describes a modern American technique for the playing of any music, accompanied by noise called harmony, and interpolated instrumental effects. It also describes music exhibiting influence of that technique which has as its traditional object to secure the effects of surprise, or in the broadest sense, humor.
