Quotes of: Big-band Keyword

I like pop, rock n' roll, big band, Broadway - I like all those elements.

Scott Bakula

I know of dude-bands who've brought big, crazy dogs on tour. Everybody loves their animal.

Marnie Stern

I've been through this fame thing before, when the band was big in '80, '81.

John Lurie

The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.

Illinois Jacquet

I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy s...

Queen Latifah

Then I left that school and I went to Cerritos College, which was in southern California; they had one of the best big band programs in the country at the time.

Bobby McFerrin

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

Alan Greenspan

The great thing about rock-n-roll is you realize the top of the mountain is big enough for more than one band.

Paul Stanley

A big problem for me was opening for Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park, two bands that wouldn't exist if it weren't for me, straight up!

Chino Moreno

I grew up in a school that had a big music program, and it was incredible. It's what I looked forward to during the day. I had chorus, strings, band.

Alison Krauss

It is not very practical in today's world when you tour all over the place having a big band.

Andy Summers

I don't see us as a big media gimmick band. We don't have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss.

Tom Verlaine

Everyone's different, but it was fun for me to work with Garth Hudson. He's from 'The Band.' They are a massive influence, that was a big thrill. He's completely out of his mind.

Teddy Thompson

Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.

Carla Bley

It's a big shame, because 'Trixter' in my mind were what a real rock n' roll band is all about.

Steve Brown

I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk.

John Lescroart

I started a big band when grunge was popular. I mean, that didn't make much sense.

Brian Setzer

I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people.

Bobby Vinton

I know a lot of people who wouldn't be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don't understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.

Dave Grohl

I grew up mostly with classical, big band, and a lot of Irish music - I really didn't start listening to rock and roll until I was maybe sixteen.

Moira Kelly

For any band that ends up becoming really big, yeah, hard work has something to do with it, but a lot of it is just pure luck.

Kellin Quinn