Band Quote by Artie Shaw

Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.

— Les Baxter

I think, back in the '80s when I was having hits all the time, I took it for granted.

— Rodney Crowell

All the classic bands that have been around forever, they came up gradually.

— Rob Zombie

I think that band [Glenn Miller] was the beginning of the end. It was a mechanized version of what they called jazz music. I…

— Artie Shaw

We always used to describe ourselves as an instrumental band. Basically, the music was always instrumentally based, so the songs always came later.

— Ian Gillan

From the beginning, with our first album, we wanted to make the music that maybe was lacking around us - the music that we…

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

The first music I got really into was Bach.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

When I was about seventeen, I had a group called the Young Jazz Giants. We played all originals. When we would finish playing, people…

— Kamasi Washington

It was the early days of Rock 'n' Roll in this country. We were all struggling to learn music, it might be Country, Jazz,…

— Jim Sullivan

It seemed like, in the early '80s, there was just a moment where there was suddenly no specific notion of what a rock band…

— Bucky Pope

Then it evolved into more of a ballad style singer/songwriter thing. And there was a conflict in trying to merge the two styles with…

— Van Morrison

One of our earliest recordings was an arrangement of 'Ticket to Ride.' It was our first single and it makes a beautiful ballad.

— Richard Carpenter