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Big Band Quotes

There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra arrangements who was at least an acquaintance to Les Baxter before he passed away.
- Jello Biafra

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

My mother was really into big band. It was played in the house all the time.
- Suzy Bogguss

My brother was always in bands and on the road when I was a kid and he was my inspiration. He never made it with a big band, in fact he never made a record. Here he is fifty-something years old.
- Jimmy Chamberlin

Music on the radio. When I went in, the big bands were just getting up a good head of steam. Now every song sounds like it's about fucking.
- Stephen King

One of the pleasant duties of America's most famous announcers during the relatively short swing era of the big bands was to host late-night remotes from some of the most famous ballrooms throughout the country.
- Nick Clooney

When I did the album for 'When Harry Met Sally,' I found myself out there in front of this big band, which I had no idea how to do, and they wiped the floor with me. It's a very specific skill, and I didn't know how to do it.
- Harry Connick Jr

Ella can work nightclubs that Duke might not be able to work, because of having the big band. Where they go now is strictly a matter of their own names and talents.
- Norman Granz

I always told the people at Cal Arts that if they wanted me to do Jazz studies, first of all, there couldn't be a big band within 500 miles and that I could do what I wanted to do. And they said I could.
- Charlie Haden

I've been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet.
- Al Jarreau

If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle.
- Quincy Jones

With my little band, I did everything they did with a big band. I made the blues jump.
- Louis Jordan

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

I mean, I don't think I would call Claus to do an album of big band tunes. You know, just like arrangers write for the artist they have in mind; you have to keep in mind if you're going to work with Claus Ogerman. You invite him to do what he does.
- Diana Krall

It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to play solos in a big band set-up.
- Alvin Lee

My brother had a big band in high school; after that we continued to play together, eventually forming a group called the Jazz Brothers, that recorded for Riverside Records.
- Chuck Mangione

Being such a big band is never a problem but it can be distracting.
- Chris Martin

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

We used to play the Savoy Ballroom, and we always had a boogie tune in the set. Bands like Tommy Dorsey used to do a little boogie woogie. The big bands.
- Jay Mcshann

Since the big band started I'm just always swamped with movies and things. It certainly pays the bills and it's very satisfying, because I get to write all these big charts and all this crazy music.
- Brian Setzer

Now I'm having the time of my life being on the road with one of the world's all-time great big bands, and performing with symphonies. I wouldn't trade it for anything.
- Doc Severinsen

I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.
- Billy Sherwood

So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.
- Billy Sherwood

I've always liked Frank Sinata and Big Band music.
- George Strait

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

Because usually in the past when I was in a big band, that was all I did.
- Kathy Valentine

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

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