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Jazz Band Quotes

And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.
- Travis Barker

The way that we imitate each others' riffs is something that other bands don't do as much. If we're jamming with a jazz band, or I am jamming with a jazz band, I have to catch myself, the tendency is always to do that.
- Mike Gordon

The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.
- Norman Granz

I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the sort of string quartet, jazz band and electronic stuff.
- Jonny Greenwood

I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.
- Wyclef Jean

I haven't a great jazz band, and I don't want one.
- Glenn Miller

It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.
- Gerry Mulligan

Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties the tradition was two or three saxophones.
- Gerry Mulligan

My brother Leon started it all. He played the piano. In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played the violin, but I followed Leon and the boys in his jazz band around.
- Louis Prima

I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his suggested that I try out for the first west coast production of Annie.
- Molly Ringwald

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.
- George Santayana

I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that's where I really learned to read music from elementary all the way through junior high and high school.
- Chad Smith

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