My mother was really into big band. It was played in the house all the time. — Suzy Bogguss Copy Share Image
With my little band, I did everything they did with a big band. I made the blues jump. — Louis Jordan Copy Share Image
I've worked with a number of big bands, but there's nothing in life like the Basie band. — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
It is not very practical in today's world when you tour all over the place having a big band. — Andy Summers Copy Share Image
Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band. — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
We want to be big... we want to be a big band, but we don't want to be your best friends. — Brian Fallon Copy Share Image
You always come back to Duke Ellington - he's kind of like the thread that holds everything together from the big band… — Herbert Copy Share Image
Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have… — Carla Bley Copy Share Image
“Music on the radio. When I went in, the big bands were just getting up a good head of steam. Now every… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Ella can work nightclubs that Duke might not be able to work, because of having the big band. Where they go now… — Norman Granz Copy Share Image
[Manhattan School Of Music] didn't' have a jazz undergraduate program at the time so I played a semester in the big band.… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra arrangements who… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
Their eagerness for the big-band music and their ability to grasp the essence of it made me realize that today's generation has… — Illinois Jacquet Copy Share Image
The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound… — Illinois Jacquet Copy Share Image
From the small clubs of the Harlem Renaissance where he began playing saxophone to world tours for the biggest of the big… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I think The Doors are one of the classic groups, and I think we're all tempted to feel like the time in… — Edgar Winter Copy Share Image
When 'American Slang' came out, everyone was like, 'This is the next big band in the world, and this is blah blah… — Brian Fallon Copy Share Image
A lot of the music is the kind of thing I grew up with, listening to it with my parents. So there… — Frances Ruffelle Copy Share Image
I started out playing big bands shows and different things. I was with several different small bands and groups, doing comedy and… — Hal Blaine Copy Share Image
The age of the rock star was coterminous with rock n' roll, which, in spite of all the promises made in some… — David Hepworth Copy Share Image
Bacharach has such a brilliant ear for melody and his music has a completely timeless feel to it; I thought it would… — Michael Ball Copy Share Image
It's certainly no coincidence that big bands became the entertainment of the army in WWI and WWII, and that jazz drumming style… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
Without doubt, the foremost band for decades has been the One O'Clock Lab Band at the University of North Texas. Through its… — Gary Burton Copy Share Image
“GOD. Sometimes I think there might be a god out there, and that every once in a while he tunes in to… — Suzanne Morrison Copy Share Image
I love jazz. So to me, there are two main types of jazz. There's dancing jazz, and then there's listening jazz. Listening… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
It is a great pleasure to be performing with a big band. Those people took part in a group that played the… — Vlatko Stefanovski Copy Share Image
“When I was little, I listened to radio serials, read comic books and went to 'B' movies. When I got a little… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
Early on, before rock 'n' roll, I listened to big band music - anything that came over the radio - and music… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Duke Ellington's career traces the entire history of jazz. The repertoire associated with him contains the most important elements in the music… — Billy Taylor Copy Share Image
“It was to be the longest flight I had ever made in my young life and one of the most interesting. Having… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater Two Copy Share Image
“WGHB started as a Clearwater, Florida radio station in 1925. By 1927, its call letters changed to WFLA and it moved to… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
“One of the sturdiest precepts of the study of human delusion is that every golden age is either past or in the… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
It really does help everyone when there are some big bands leading the charge. — M. Shadows Copy Share Image
We don't have the big-band mentality. We never wanted to become a big band. — Fab Moretti Copy Share Image
Traveling with a big band is like being an inmate in a traveling zoo. — Hoagy Carmichael Copy Share Image
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