It was liberating to do comedy. It felt like playing in a jazz band. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
In college, I was able to be the vocalist for the jazz band at Arkansas State. — Ashley McBryde Copy Share Image
The jazz band's chief stimulus, of course, was the rise of the negro 'blues' and their exploitation by the negro song-writer, W.… — Bix Beiderbecke Copy Share Image
In the Bay Area, there was a resurgence of Dixieland jazz in the '40s - there was the Frisco Jazz Band, and… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
If I don’t practice for a day, I know it. If I don’t practice for two days, the critics know it. And… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
At Norwell High School, I played with The Thompson Brothers. I was also in the jazz band. I acted in a lot… — Susan Tedeschi Copy Share Image
Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties… — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
I was in a rock band; I was my own folk singer; I was in a death metal band for a very… — Kiesza Copy Share Image
It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way. — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
I have a big love for jazz music. The only thing I hated about singing with a jazz band was having to… — Ashley McBryde Copy Share Image
“From time to time complaints are made about the ringing of church bells. It seems strange that a generation which tolerates the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
[On John Tunnard:] One day a marvelous man in a highly elaborate tweed coat walked into the gallery. He looked a little… — Peggy Guggenheim Copy Share Image
The podcast 'A History of Jazz' began telling its story in February - 100 years after the recording of 'Livery Stable Blues'… — David Hepworth Copy Share Image
I used to hang out a lot in jazz clubs, and the groups took to a kid like me who wasn't afraid… — Eric Burdon Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had… — Flea Copy Share Image
The way that we imitate each others' riffs is something that other bands don't do as much. If we're jamming with a… — Mike Gordon Copy Share Image
I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that's where I… — Chad Smith Copy Share Image
Shared leadership... is less like a an orchestra, where the conductor is always in charge, and more like a jazz band, where… — Phillip C. Schlechty Copy Share Image
“There are those, too, who are ethnically predisposed in favor of funerals, who recognize among the black drapes and dirges an emotionally… — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
When I was young, I never bought records because my brother Joseph played saxophone and had a record player. I loved listening… — Miriam Makeba Copy Share Image
At Carnegie Hall the Preservation Hall Jazz Band showed how easily it could hop from era to era. It could work like… — Jon Pareles Copy Share Image
I think the key that differentiates the good actors from the mediocre ones that are still trying to come up, is that… — Wesley Snipes Copy Share Image
The aim of jazz is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let yourself be… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
“March 6, 1961 I remembered a party in a house outside of Ann Arbor. There was a jazz band -- piano, bass,… — Leonard Michaels Copy Share Image
I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his… — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
Around middle school I studied jazz guitar and ended up playing in a jazz band for a bit. But, after high school,… — Mike Tucker Copy Share Image
I started off with the flute and French horn, and then I was playing trumpet in the jazz band. — KiKi Layne Copy Share Image
I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences. — Wyclef Jean Copy Share Image
My songs were influenced not so much by poetry on the page but by poetry being recited by the poets who recited… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I got my first set of drums when I was around 3. I went from band to marching band to Latin jazz… — Jeremih Copy Share Image
I was 16 when I came to New York. I had graduated to a tenor banjo in the school jazz band, and… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
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… — Glenn Miller Copy Share Image
In high school, I was always into Jerry Lee Lewis, and they decided they needed a piano player for the jazz band.… — Nellie McKay Copy Share Image
The church we grew up playing at was not one of those churches known for its music, but it was just this… — Thundercat Copy Share Image
Communication is the essential medium of a creative culture: the communal sea in which we all swim. A company that can't communicate… — John Kao Copy Share Image