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Bandleader Inspirational Quotes (1464)

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He's no Bill Clinton!
Benny Carter
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Benny [Carter] opened the eyes of a lot of producers and studios, so that they could understand that you could go to blacks for other things outside of blues and barbecue. He's a total musician. He was the pioneer, he was the foundation. He made it possible for that doubt to be taken away.
Quincy Jones
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I'm fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with.
Gerry Mulligan
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The Glycemic Index is one the best tools for fat loss. It measures how quickly foods breakdown into sugar in your bloodstream.
Al Sears
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But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play.
Buddy Rich
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If you have any requests. keep them to yourselves. we don't play requests!
Buddy Rich
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A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that's the bottom line.
Quincy Jones
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The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible.
Sun Ra
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In the year of 1902, when I was about seventeen years old, I happened to invade one of the sections [in New Orleans] where the birth of Jazz originated from.
Jelly Roll Morton
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You could play probably a span of 50 years of me playing St. Louis Blues, and most of the time it will be different every time.
Dave Brubeck
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You can't make jazz without using certain elements of Latin music.
Jelly Roll Morton
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Jazz celebrates older generations and not just the youth movement. When you sell only to people of a certain age, you get cut off from the main body of experience. The power of couple dancing and courtship, it's elegant, and you wouldn't realize America was once a nation of dancers and singers today. People of all races could dance and sing.
Wynton Marsalis
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Imitate, assimilate & innovate.
Clark Terry
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I play a percussion instrument, not a musical saw it needs no amplification. Where it's needed, they put a microphone in front of the bass drum. But, I don't think it's necessary to play that way every night.
Buddy Rich
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Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
Duke Ellington
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I think we are in the midst of this period where we are committing this suicide on the planet and everybody is just using up all of our natural resources like a bunch of insane people. That's what I worry about more than I worry about jazz.
Sonny Rollins
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Bebop has set music back twenty years.
Tommy Dorsey
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Elvis Presleys' first album had more energy and more enthusiam than any other album at the time - when it was released it just blew everything else out. It changed the whole landscape of music
Brian Setzer
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The music we play is kind of hard to explain. It's music that we really feel.
Lester Bowie
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I'm sure critics have their purpose, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what he did.
Duke Ellington
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The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.
Gerry Mulligan
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Some summers my father would take us down to visit our grandmother in Louisville, who was an ex-slave, Susan Jones, and she had a shotgun shack they call it, and no electricity, a well in the back, a coal stove, kerosene lamps.
Quincy Jones
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In 1977 we played America and Europe three times, and Japan - my marriage suffered as a result. My then wife took the kids to Canada to be near her parents
Phil Collins
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I'm fascinated by what people will do to each other. Actually, I'm sort of interested in the gory details of life.
Phil Collins
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