Jazz Band Quotes

23 quotes by 19 authors

And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school. — Travis Barker
I haven't a great Jazz band and I don't want one. — Glenn Miller
The aim of jazz is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let yourself be castrated,' the eunuchlike… — Theodor Adorno
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 fingers at us… — Glenn Miller
It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way. — Gerry Mulligan
Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties the tradition was… — Gerry Mulligan
I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the sort of string… — Jonny Greenwood
At Carnegie Hall the Preservation Hall Jazz Band showed how easily it could hop from era to era. It could work like a rhythm-and-blues horn… — Jon Pareles
Communication is the essential medium of a creative culture: the communal sea in which we all swim. A company that can't communicate is like a… — John Kao
My brother Leon started it all. He played the piano. In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played the violin, but… — Louis Prima
I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that's where I really learned to… — Chad Smith
I used to hang out a lot in jazz clubs, and the groups took to a kid like me who wasn't afraid to get up… — Eric Burdon
Shared leadership... is less like a an orchestra, where the conductor is always in charge, and more like a jazz band, where leadership is passed… — Phillip C. Schlechty
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
In high school, I was always into Jerry Lee Lewis, and they decided they needed a piano player for the jazz band. I had my… — Nellie McKay
I grew up playing the saxophone. I joined the jazz band in high school, but somewhere along the way I realized the guys who strummed… — Chris Carmack
It was liberating to do comedy. It felt like playing in a jazz band. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
There were so many specific things from high school jazz band that I remembered: the conductor searching out people who were out of tune, or… — Damien Chazelle
I was in a rock band; I was my own folk singer; I was in a death metal band for a very short time; I… — Kiesza
The way that we imitate each others' riffs is something that other bands don't do as much. If we're jamming with a jazz band, or… — Mike Gordon

Who Wrote These Jazz Band Quotes

19 authors contributed a total of 23 Jazz Band Quotes as follows: