Illinois Jacquet Quotes

Their eagerness for the big-band music and their ability to grasp the essence of it made me realize that today's generation has not been properly exposed to the big-band sound.

Illinois Jacquet

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MusicTodayMeGenerationSound

I have more information in one place than anybody in the world.

Jerry Pournelle

WorldInformationPlaceMoreThan

Although in my life the level of loss has never reached the extremes it does in 'The Winter People,' I certainly can identify with being both a daughter longing for her mother and being a mother who is almost scared by the intensity of her love for her daughter.

Jennifer McMahon

LifeLoveWinterMotherDaughter

Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.

Jean Racine

LoveEyesFireSoulSilenceLove Is

All I know is that every time I go to Africa, I am shaken to my core.

Stephen Lewis

TimeI AmGoKnowAfricaCore

It's not a responsibility to be a fashion diva. I enjoy it and also enjoy getting up in morning and putting on make-up, getting ready. I don't think there is any girl who doesn't like to look good and wear good clothes.

Sonam Kapoor

GoodGirlMorningResponsibility

I read all the time... I read a lot of history books.

Mickey Spillane

HistoryTimeBooksReadLot

One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle.

Michael Palin

LifeRideBicycleMy LifeImportant

I have a very eclectic iPod. So I've got my cardio people - so it's anything from Beyonce to some Jay-Z to Janelle Monae, her song 'Tightrope,' that's a good cardio song. And then I've got Sting. I've got Mary J. Blige. I've got The Beatles. I've got Michael Jackson. I try to pick the songs that I personally love.

Michelle Obama

LoveGoodPeopleSongTryAnything

WWE is like showbiz boot camp.

Dean Ambrose

WWELikeShowbizBoot CampBoot

In my normal life I'm a very unadventurous person.

Brian Eno

LifePersonNormalNormal LifeVery

Comedians are innately programmed to pick up oddities like mispronounced words, upside-down books on a shelf, and generally undetectable mistakes in everyday life.

Bob Newhart

LifeMistakesWordsEverydayUp

I read many riveting escape-and-evade accounts of airmen and of the Resistance networks organized to hide them and then send them on grueling treks across the Pyrenees to safety. But it was the people I met in France and Belgium who made the period come alive for me. They had lived it.

Bobbie Ann Mason

PeopleMeSafetyHideAliveLived

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