Quotes of: Jazz-band Keyword

I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.

Gary Wright

Bands are about these little relationships that make everything tick, and when you create new music you're testing those relationships.

Jonathan Cain

Every now and then, a lot of bands doing the same kind of music will organically sprout up at once.

Kathy Valentine

I'm in a band, and we play music. And that's sort of my way of still being a rock star.

Sunny Mabrey

I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.

Sting

I got more bands and went on the road and turn down more movies than you would believe.

Sally Kellerman

Everything is completely democratic in this band so far and that is the way that we would like to keep it.

Adam Rich

I think that every band tries to mature their sound through their existence, you know?

Adam Rich

Sometimes I don't want to be in the confines of what a band seems to provide.

Alex Turner

Led Zeppelin, you can't find a better band to pay homage to.

Ann Wilson

Fleetwood Mac are more like a folk-rock band.

Ann Wilson

We're not like Alice In Chains where somebody dies and the band breaks up.

Ann Wilson

I had glow in the dark bands made up and I've given away a ton of them.

April Winchell

Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult.

Bruce Springsteen

When I was a teenager I took freedom for granted until I got through the army and saw what the Nazis had done in Germany. Then I realized that freedom isn't automatic; it has a price. World War II was a justified and necessary war. Last year I met fi...

We Who Are Alive and Remain: Untold Stories from the Band of Brothers

...I was there when we opened the gates. Some of these poor wretches running out were so emaciated they actually died from the excitement of being liberated. I saw it happen several times. These people in the camps – they were like walking skeleton...

We Who Are Alive and Remain: Untold Stories from the Band of Brothers

The most important thing about Jazz at Lincoln Center is the fact that it's the first time that perhaps the most important art form in American culture has a place to really exhibit itself and dedicated to its own particular conditions of performance...

Rafael Vinoly

Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand it. The music can connect us to our earlier selves and to our better selves-to-come. It can remind us of ...

Wynton Marsalis

The summer before my third year of law school, I worked at a law firm in Washington, D.C. I turned 25 that July, and on my birthday, my father happened to be playing in a local jazz club called Pigfoot and invited me to join him. I hadn't spent a bir...

Deval Patrick

I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'

Idina Menzel

Jazz is very important. It's not something I can put my finger on. When I'm writing at my favorite time, I like to have the gentle side of Coltrane or Brubeck on the CD player. It creates sort of a spiritual space in which I write best.

Miller Williams