Jay McShann Quotes

They had the music being piped right out on the street. I'd be three or four blocks from there and I couldn't get there fast enough because I'd hear old Joe holler them words.

Jay McShann

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 12, 1916 - December 7, 2006

Topics

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I still love touring rock clubs around the world, and that's something that's really a part of me. I love making albums, and I'm a wedding singer on the side; that's my parallel career. So I love all those aspects of making music.

Jens Lekman

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Who you are as a person will only be amplified once you are 'famous,' so if you had a good heart, then I would imagine you'll have the same good heart but the means to do even more with it.

Meghan Markle

GoodHeartGood HeartFamousYou

No, I'm at full height, I'm in the studio, I can actually catch actors by the eye, it's fantastic.

John Leeson

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What is overriding that and most important is that readers generally are interested in a good character. They might be more comfortable with Harry because they think they know him, but they always seem willing to give somebody new a chance.

Michael Connelly

GoodCharacterChanceThinkKnow

My clients train hard. They don't scream or throw weights - they just push hard, trying to get more out of themselves than their bodies want to give, trying to walk that terrible, beautiful line between controlled aggression and all-out insanity.

John Romaniello

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The reason the United States is not so likely to invade Iran is precisely because of the lessons learned from Iraq. And conversely, the Iranian push towards nuclear capability is calculated to deter invasions like the kind deposing Saddam Husain.

Steven Pinker

PushKindReasonUnitedBecause

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

Shirley Hazzard

LoveTruthImaginationIntelligence

I love playing in Fantomas, which is very strict in terms of composition.

Trevor Dunn

LovePlayingCompositionStrictVery

I have worked with several art directors and production designers who are just magnificent. Dave Getz, Paul Felix, Ian Gooding... just amazing artists, and I would say, if I had anything to do with it, I just pick good artists!

Roy Conli

GoodArtAmazingSayAnythingJust

There is a time of reckoning in all our lives.

Lorna Luft

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Look, I play all these tough guys and thugs and strong, complex characters. In real life, I am a cringing, neurotic Jewish mess. Can't I for once play that on stage?

Jason Isaacs

LifeI AmToughStrongLookPlay

I will never be satisfied. Life is one constant search for the betterment for me.

Jayne Mansfield

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