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.
Edward C Prescott Economists create their own worlds. We’re like little gods with our artificial economics, wanting to see what happens. – Edward C Prescott
Jamie Carragher As one of the lucky ones who could provide for my family, I also wanted to help those from my area. – Jamie Carragher
Andrew Santino I was born and raised in Chicago and I kind of wanted to go home to where I’m from, where my roots are. – Andrew Santino
Monica Horan All of us here in Los Angeles, because we’ve had some success as a result of our life in the arts, need to get on board with helping L.A. Unified, the public school system, really reach the mandate to make arts part of the Common Core curriculum. – Monica Horan
Barney Frank The Clinton tax increase – which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people – not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life. – Barney Frank
Akshaye Khanna My first film was a failure. I had many failures too. It’s not easy dealing with it. – Akshaye Khanna
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