I wasn't a dancer learning to play Baby Houseman. I was Baby Houseman learning to play a dancer. I was someone who'd never done any Latin dance. I'd taken jazz classes and ballet growing up in New York, so I had dance in me, and I knew I loved it, bu...
I love all types of music. Jazz, classical, blues, rock, hip-hop. I often write scripts to instrumentals like a hip-hop artist. Music inspires me to write. It's either music playing or completely silent. Sometimes distant sound fuels you. In New York...
I was being ridiculed for going to school... But, you see, I had looked hard at the other musicians and the whole show-business scene... They were doing with jazz musicians what they usually reserved for rock n' roll cats: making them overnight succe...
Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all the time late into the night. I was very excited when I started making a living out of my writing, and I decided, 'I will live in n...
1900: You're the one who invented jazz, right? Jelly Roll Morton: That's what they say. And you're the one who can't play, unless you have the ocean under your ass, 1900: That's what they say.
Milt Shaw: He's off the Chitlin Circuit. Down Beat just voted him best male jazz vocalist by a two to one margin. [short pause] Milt Shaw: Well, if you want to keep him in Philadelphia, you're gonna find him a bigger venue.
When I and the other young artists were working in comics, our work carried with it a particularly American slant. After all, we were Americans drawing and writing about things that touched us. As it turned out, the early work was, you might say, a c...
I don’t know where she comes up with this stuff. Her mind... it’s like I’ve come upon this secret vault that science will someday discover — or probably never discover. Which is fine by me. Kind of like when there’s a band I really like but...
When I was a senior in high school, I was playing in this local band in our town, and I really wanted to be a musician for a living, and it didn’t look like that was going to happen with my band. So, I enrolled in college and stuff. My senior year ...
Rob: [From a deleted scene] Barry, you're over 30 years old. You owe it to yourself, to your friends, to your parents, NOT to play in a band called Sonic Death Monkey! Barry: I owe it to myself to go RIGHT to the edge, Rob! And this band does exactly...
A blanket could be used as a cover of your favorite song by your favorite cover band.
But I think bands that rolled in with a big attitude, like they were some big deal, I just found that very strange.
At the age of 16 I started performing with a dance band in the evenings and began earning more money than my father, but he was pleased for me.
It was a relief to be able to do my own band, because I was very responsible for all this amazing music I didn't want to mess up before.
Working on art, as opposed to being in a constant collaborative state, as in a band, is something that I've always done - to a smaller degree, but it always remained a part of my integral self.
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.
A good band is like a team. You want to have the right balance. It's not always the best people you need, but the right ones for the job.
Graham Yost is a genius, and I know that very well because we worked together on 'Band of Brothers' and 'Boomtown.'
I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.
Bands always call me when they are in need of a boost and I come in and put them back on top.
The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!
