Illinois Jacquet 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!

Illinois Jacquet

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 31, 1922 - July 22, 2004

Topics

LoveBelieveYoungSwingBandSound

I've never wanted anything as much as I want to win the next Super Bowl.

Jerry Jones

WinSuper BowlWantNeverAnything

Learn to invest in investments where you can achieve an honest, legal advantage over other investors. When it comes to investing, why play on a level field?

Robert Kiyosaki

LegalLearnYouPlayAchieveWhy

Upon arriving, meeting their teachers and signing up for classes, these students began to realize that their attendance at Delaware State University was not a goal achieved, but rather a dream being sewn - a first step, if you will.

Michael N. Castle

StepFirst StepYouDreamGoalWill

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

Josh Billings

LearningWisdomAwakeWideSleeps

If I'm feeling something, I have a lot of different ways to express it, you know? I can write an article about it. I can write a screenplay about it. I can act in someone's thing.

Josh Radnor

SomeoneYouFeelingI CanKnowAct

I'm totally open to it being a movie or a television series or whatever, but truthfully, if no one wants to do it right, I'm also happy for 'Ex Machina' to only ever exist as a comic book.

Brian K. Vaughan

HappyBookTelevisionRightOpen

While it has been hurtful to my family and me to read constantly in the media that I was under investigation, I am pleased that as expected my spending has been found to be in order.

Peter Slipper

FamilyI AmMeMediaOrderHurtful

Even in an organization that's doing something big and bold, there's the mundane, day-to-day execution work of keeping it going. But people need to stay connected to the boldness, to the vision, and stay plugged in to the main vein of the dream.

Peter Diamandis

WorkVisionPeopleOrganizationBold

I'm a children's book writer, and my wife is a musician. We've raised a family on income from songs, performances and books.

Peter Lerangis

FamilyChildrenWifeBookIncome

With independent film, simply because they don't have the money to make a big-budget film, they're forced to make a story that's important to them, that they would like to see on film, a personal story that people can relate to, about people, where you can see the love of the characters.

Seymour Cassel

LoveMoneyPeopleStoryYouSee

It's a surer way to a woman's heart to be interested in what she's thinking than what she's wearing or not wearing.

Tina Louise

HeartWomanThinkingWaySheThan

I just let my hair go - if there's no hairdresser around I really can't be bothered!

Khloe Kardashian

HairGoHairdresserJustBothered

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