Illinois Jacquet 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 Bigband Quotes Brass Quotes Classical Quotes Crackle Quotes Dropped Quotes Eggs Quotes Fresh Quotes Grease Quotes Hot Quotes Music Quotes Patterns Quotes Smooth Quotes Sound Quotes When I was 16 or 17 I heard the Count Basie band with Jo Jones and Lester Young and Herschel Evans and I couldn’t believe it. They were the greatest swing band. I really fell in love with that sound. Everybody danced! When I got my band in 1983, I knew what I had to do. If I’m going to have a big band, they’re going to have to sound equally as good as what I’m used to hearing.
Lorrie Morgan I’ve paid a lot of dues, learned a lot, seen people come and go, what to do and what not to do. – Lorrie Morgan
BusinessLucy Maud Montgomery We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it’s grand and great. – Lucy Maud Montgomery
Jim Wallis We have got some mountains to move. Three billion people – half of God’s children – are living on less than $2 a day. – Jim Wallis
John Wesley I reflected much on that vain desire, which had pursued me for so many years, of being in solitude in order to be a Christian. I have now, thought I, solitude enough; but am I therefore the nearer being a Christian? Not if Jesus Christ be the model of Christianity. – John Wesley
John Barrasso My dad, as a guy, had to quit school in the ninth grade, fought in the Battle of the Bulge. And spent his life pushing wheel barrels of heavy wet cement. So we’ve gone from pushing cement to now in one generation pushing legislation. But we always want any president to succeed, to do well; that means America does well and Americans do well. – John Barrasso
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