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
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
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 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'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
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
[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
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
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
A few Disney TV composers had me pinch-hit writing some scoring cues to picture. Disney tapped me to be the composer for… — Danny Jacob 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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
The great thing about rock-n-roll is you realize the top of the mountain is big enough for more than one band. — Paul Stanley Copy Share Image
When I got my band in 1983, I knew what I had to do. If I'm going to have a big band,… — Illinois Jacquet Copy Share Image
Not many people come out of a big band as the lead singer/songwriter and making a record, and all of a sudden… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Then I left that school and I went to Cerritos College, which was in southern California; they had one of the best… — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
What music I listen to day to day changes very, very much. I can go from bluegrass to heavy metal, to blues,… — Casey James Copy Share Image
“Rock and roll, big band, the blues. He loved them all. He would close his eyes and with a blissful smile begin… — Mitch Albom 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
Now I'm having the time of my life being on the road with one of the world's all-time great big bands, and… — Doc Severinsen 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
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