Swing Quotes

557 quotes by 423 authors

One thing I learned in '97, when I thought the right time to found a company was during a swing-up, is that it's much better… — Reid Hoffman
The idea was to focus on the primal drama of parenthood: the way from moment to moment you swing from comforter to tormentor, just as… — Emma Donoghue
If I had to do a record review, I'd say it's got a cannibal, consumption, obsessive, violent-sex, romance angle, but with an upbeat swing to… — Marilyn Manson
Hideki Irabu had a very good curveball. Just a straight up and down, swing-and-miss curveball. — Jorge Posada
I'm being a lot more consistent, trying to make every swing look the same. I'm doing what the situation calls for and trying not to… — Nick Swisher
I think it looked like I was a little more aggressive than I was, ... I swing at bad pitches anyway, but I was swinging… — Vladimir Guerrero
I'll do a cappella stuff, rock 'n' roll and swing stuff. — Juice Newton
'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in… — Artie Shaw
What I love about Sonny's playing is that he is so inventive within the mainstream Jazz vernacular. Because he knows so many ways to deal… — Pete La Roca
I, myself, came to enjoy the players who didn't only just swing but who invented new rhythmic patterns, along with new melodic concepts. And those… — Charles Mingus
Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music. It's like making a… — Horace Silver
I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker would… — Charlie Parker
It ["Begin the Beguine"] became such a hit that it superseded anything that any band had ever had. It was the first time that a… — Artie Shaw
It's not just enough to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball have it. — Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Rock â€™n roll is really swing with a modern name. It began on the levees and plantations, took in folk songs, and features blues and… — Alan Freed
Players who stand flat footed and swing with their arms are golfers, not hitters. — Rogers Hornsby
That's no good, I can't steal from the fairly well off and give to the moderately impoverished! That's not gonna swing, is it? — Eddie Izzard
If I had my career to play over, one thing I'd do differently is swing more. Those 1,200 walks I got, nobody remembers them. — Pee Wee Reese
Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be able… — Pee Wee Reese
Iâ€™m not afraid to take a swing and miss. — Frederick W. Smith

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