My dad conducted the Disneyland band since I was born, and I was around big band music a lot. — Josh Freese Copy Share Image
I learned all about big band arrangement and symphony arrangement and writing for strings. — Jack Conte Copy Share Image
I like pop, rock n' roll, big band, Broadway - I like all those elements. — Scott Bakula Copy Share Image
I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk. — John Lescroart Copy Share Image
Because usually in the past when I was in a big band, that was all I did. — Kathy Valentine Copy Share Image
I started a big band when grunge was popular. I mean, that didn't make much sense. — Brian Setzer Copy Share Image
My brother was always in bands and on the road when I was a kid and he was my inspiration. He never… — Jimmy Chamberlin Copy Share Image
It is very important to me that my songs can sound amazing with a big band or orchestra, but just as powerful… — Tessanne Chin Copy Share Image
People always - when you rise, whenever you're getting to a point where you're a very big band, which is a very… — Adam Levine Copy Share Image
So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy. — Billy Sherwood Copy Share Image
Not everybody wanted a female to be the front face of a big band, you know... You had to be three times… — Dolores O'Riordan Copy Share Image
In the 70s, what thrash was there? Punk came on, and that was cool. But there was no thrash. There were dinosaur… — Al Jourgensen Copy Share Image
I've been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
I like having a big band because it gives you more options. They can always not play and I can do the… — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
I was growing up at a time when music was growing and changing so fast. I had learned all the big band… — Jose Feliciano Copy Share Image
“we flew to England again to play the outdoor Monsters of Rock festival at Castle Donington. This was the kind of thing… — Duff McKagan Copy Share Image
When do you suppose the electric guitar was invented? If you thought the 1950s, you'd be wrong. If you can muster a… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
I always told the people at Cal Arts that if they wanted me to do Jazz studies, first of all, there couldn't… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
I taught myself to play guitar and sing. I ended up writing a lot of music and had a band and was… — Daniel Lissing Copy Share Image
“Invited to think of the futuristic, we will still come up with something like the music of Kraftwerk, even though this is… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
When I write a tune - and it's been like this for many years - I always hear in the back of… — John Scofield Copy Share Image
I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Rock and roll and swing never quite mixed. Rock and roll came in and just blew everything out of the water. Big… — Brian Setzer Copy Share Image
My sister loved country music. My mother loved Spanish music. And my dad was into big band music and jazz. — Hope Sandoval Copy Share Image
The Big Band Era is my era. People say, 'Where did you get your style from?' I did the Big Band Era… — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image
We became a band that was kind of a big band, kind of a band that quite uncool people listen to, people… — Torquil Campbell Copy Share Image
With a smaller setting, you have a lot more freedom and flexibility within a given moment, but not necessarily the velocity you… — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I… — Bobby Vinton Copy Share Image
I grew up mostly with classical, big band, and a lot of Irish music - I really didn't start listening to rock… — Moira Kelly Copy Share Image
That's what we grew up with - the good songs, the good lyrics, the good big-band stuff. I miss that era. — Glen Campbell Copy Share Image
Gene Krupa was my big hero, and I used to play on my mother's flour cans and sugar cans with the kitchen… — Dick Dale Copy Share Image
It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first… — Alvin Lee Copy Share Image
I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
We used to play the Savoy Ballroom, and we always had a boogie tune in the set. Bands like Tommy Dorsey used… — Jay McShann Copy Share Image
Since the big band started I'm just always swamped with movies and things. It certainly pays the bills and it's very satisfying,… — Brian Setzer Copy Share Image
I like the power and versatility of a big band and how an orchestra can vary the dynamics from very loud to… — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records. — Billy Sherwood Copy Share Image
There was a period after my first solo album came out that about 50 per cent of my work was with symphonies… — Toni Tennille Copy Share Image
My brother had a big band in high school; after that we continued to play together, eventually forming a group called the… — Chuck Mangione Copy Share Image
