Glenn Miller Quotes

I haven't got a great jazz band and I don't want one. Some of the critics, Down Beat's among them, point their fingers at us and charge us with forsaking real jazz . . . It's all in what you define as 'real jazz.' It happens that to our ears harmony comes first. A dozen colored bands have a better beat than mine. Our band stresses harmony.

Glenn Miller

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• Today's accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • May
  • Today
  • Parents

• For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive task.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Band
  • Like
  • Task

• We should purify our innate well of contentment - what a wonderful expression - and then external things will be in harmony with us.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Will
  • Expression
  • Harmony

• I got a lot of influence from my father, honestly. He'd take me in his car. I'd hear Carlos Santana. I'd hear Queen. I'd hear all these Turkish people, like, bands that he grew up listening to. He was in a band as well.

  

  Action Bronson
  • People
  • Up
  • Father

• Painful emotions show you what prevents you from creating harmony, cooperation, sharing and reverence for life.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Life
  • Emotions
  • Harmony

• Quite often, little germs of ideas have come from something that I've observed or someone's told me. The process of it becoming fiction is expanding and extending it: stretching the rubber band of reality.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Reality
  • Band
  • Ideas

• When I was a kid, and it was time to go to college, I thought, 'College is for people who don't have the street smarts to make it on their own - get in a band, get in a van, and get rockin'.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • People
  • Time
  • College

• Every band I knew or played with had flyers and properly-recorded demos and contacts; I couldn't even get a gig.

  

  Beck
  • Band
  • Even
  • Contacts

• Whether a person is spiritual or not, we all seek to get away from the stress, anger, and anxiety of everyday life. Some people drink, do drugs, or do worse to escape, and they hurt themselves in the process. Some people listen to music, mine included, and feel better.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• To love the carnal self means to love the body-mind. I cannot abuse my body with alcohol, stress, and self-indulgence and still claim to love my self.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Mind
  • Stress
  • Abuse

• I never want to be in that stage where a band ends up playing state fairs and casinos. I am not willing to go out shooting up Botox and eating corn dogs while judging pig contests.

  

  Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs
  • Band
  • Stage
  • Judging

• My sister and I shared a bedroom our entire lives and I believe she discovered the Beatles when she was about 11 and I'm four years younger. So from the age of 7 until 17 we had nothing but Beatles paraphernalia in our room, even those little stuffed Beatles that went on stands that are dressed as the Sgt. Pepper band.

  

  Christina Ricci
  • Believe
  • She
  • Age

• The band couldn't have happened anywhere else in the world but New York. That was the catalyst.

  

  Jan Hammer
  • World
  • Band

• I generally prefer to come in to the studio with a fully written song and then work on the arrangement with the band. Sometimes even the arrangements are pretty much already worked out in my head, but other times we experiment.

  

  Adam Schlesinger
  • Work
  • Pretty
  • Song

• Doing something like 'Damages,' I played a character with post-traumatic stress. I was playing with sleep deprivation. I was not sleeping; I stayed up for three days at a time, drinking Red Bull. I would get shaky and tired and hyper.

  

  Chris Messina
  • Up
  • Time
  • Character

• I have two pairs of stretchy maternity leggings and jeans, which I will never give up, because once you experience an elastic band for a waist, you will never go back.

  

  Daphne Oz
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Band

• Usually I can hear the pianos, the saxophone, and usually I can hear Ronnie. But I really need to listen to Keith and Mick. The rest of the band is sort of an embellishment to that.

  

  Charlie Watts The Rolling Stones
  • Band
  • Rest

• My roommates are all such happy-go-lucky guys, and I carry some of the stress around a lot more.

  

  Pierce Brown
  • Happy
  • Stress

• I don't stress about things I can't change, so if I have a day when I don't look great, I don't look in the mirror! I try to fit in one session of Bikram yoga and one run a week and, if I can, one swim, but that's pushing it.

  

  Donna Air
  • Great
  • Mirror
  • Stress

• To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Good
  • Work
  • Art

• I grew up in central Florida in the nineteen-sixties, barefoot half the time and running around the orange groves where my father worked. I remember flocks of white birds that would lift from the backs of cattle, disturbed by the jackhammers and bulldozers clearing land for Walt Disney World.

  

  Anne Hull
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• After joining as a youth trainee at 16 from school, in my first two or three years the club was on a financial downward spiral and there was none of the new sparkling kit and the sparkling conditions that the kids get now.

  

  Colin Cooper
  • School
  • Kids
  • Financial

• I haven't got a great jazz band and I don't want one. Some of the critics, Down Beat's among them, point their fingers at us and charge us with forsaking real jazz . . . It's all in what you define as 'real jazz.' It happens that to our ears harmony comes first. A dozen colored bands have a better beat than mine. Our band stresses harmony.

  

  Glenn Miller
  • Band
  • Stress
  • Harmony