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Bandleader Inspirational Quotes (1460)

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I hold death in my pouch, I cannot die.
Fela Kuti
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The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now.
Artie Shaw
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Dance as though no one is watching. Love as though you've never been hurt. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.
John Philip Sousa
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I really love the piano and I feel very fortunate that I am able to play and travel all over the world as my career.
McCoy Tyner
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When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.
Barry White
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I always say it's not my Arkestra, it belongs to some other force which wants certain things, to reach people.
Sun Ra
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Life is not about finding our limitations, it's about finding our infinity.
Herbie Hancock
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Women have been held back and limited throughout the centuries. Creation could not have been rendered, not even considered, let alone be brought into manifestation without woman. She is principal, a powerful energy. She is first.
Alice Coltrane
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...That is one of the main causes of this arrogance: the idea of power. Then you lose your true power which is to be part of all, and the only way you can be part of all is to understand it. And when you don't understand, you have to go humbly to it. You don't go to school and say, 'I know what you're going to teach me'.
John Coltrane
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If you have a great band with a mediocre drummer, you have a mediocre band. If you have a mediocre band with a great drummer, you have a great band!
Duke Ellington
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I never stopped thinking about the Alamo from that day to this. I'm a huge collector of memorabilia. I've got Davy Crockett's bullet pouch. I've got Colonel Travis's belt.
Phil Collins
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What's swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don't have to ask anybody if that's good music or not. You can always feel it.
Miles Davis
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A band ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought to have a personality.
Glenn Miller
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The sweetest things in life to you were just loaned, so how can you lose what you've never owned.
Rudy Vallee
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As you work on something, whether it's a painting or a piece of music, it's going to evolve. A relationship is like that too.
Harry Connick, Jr.
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Creativity grows out of two things: curiosity & imagination.
Benny Goodman
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I sat in at every club in New York City, jamming with musicians, because it felt right - and because it felt right and we were having fun - the people dancing and sipping their drinks in the clubs felt it too and it made them smile.
Ray Conniff
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A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original.
Louis Armstrong
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At first there was nothingthen nothing turned itself inside-out and became something
Sun Ra
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I always smoked cigars. I've smoked cigars with everybody in show business.
Al Hirt
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Seems to me, it aint the world that's so bad but what we're doin' to it. And all I'm saying is, see, what a wonderful world it would be if only we'd give it a chance. Love baby, love. That's the secret...
Louis Armstrong
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I don't remember feeling love.
Quincy Jones
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Musically, the bebop route was magnificent, but businesswise, it was the dumbest thing I ever did.
Woody Herman
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Jazz is a democratic musical form. We take our respective instruments & collectively create a thing of beauty.
Max Roach
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