Illinois Jacquet Quotes

#1. There was no pause, no pity, no peace, no interval of relenting rest, no measurement of time. Though days and nights circled as regularly as when time was young, and the evening and morning were the first day, other count of time there was none.

Charles Dickens

#2. Should we try to account for all the gifts of life there would be no time for distress and uneasiness.

Bryant McGill

#3. It was raining cats and dogs, and I fell in a poodle.

Charles A. Murray

#4. I feel creatively vibrant. I have some great friends; I feel like I'm capable of giving a lot to the world. And ultimately, that's what I really care about, is just giving.

Flea

#5. I think there is some resistance when people talk about ethical fashion, and a tendency to panic that if you're bringing a moral agenda and highlighting the origins of the garments, you can't incorporate style. But there's no reason why style and conscience can't co-exist.

Erin O'Connor

#6. I have always been a fixer. I am a fixer. I like problems, and I like puzzles, and I like to help people, so I have been a fixer, and I have always been an educator.

Tabatha Coffey

#7. When I got my band in 1983, I knew what I had to do. If I'm going to have a big band, they're going to have to sound equally as good as what I'm used to hearing.

Illinois Jacquet

#8. People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.

Mother Teresa

#9. The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.

Illinois Jacquet

#10. 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

#11. 'LazyTown' is basically about motivation. So what do I call motivation? I call it 'go.' The show is going to inspire kids to go. Go fishing. Go dancing. Go live.

Magnus Scheving

#12. The Lord gave us power in proportion to the work to be done, and strength according to the race set before us, and grace and help as our needs required.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#13. Memo to young journalists: Democratic victories are always ascribed to hope; Republican ones to rage.

David Brooks

#14. Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

Seneca The Younger

#15. People like to hear songs that they can dance to. Even if they're sitting, they like being made to want to dance and move. By me being a dancer, I know how I'd dance at certain tempos. I was always good at it.

Illinois Jacquet

#16. Hamp would ask me about tempos in the band: 'Jacquet,' he'd say, 'knock off that tempo.' A lot of jazz musicians didn't prefer to play for dancers, which was their loss, really. But good jazz has always had that dance feel.

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#17. Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.

Havelock Ellis

#18. 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

#19. He was so drunk that he would have stubbornly denied that he was.

Filippo Bologna

#20. I think there's a lot projected on beautiful women, period. At least, maybe this is just my fear, but I do sometimes feel dismissed before I've even been allowed to participate. I have moments of feeling really wounded. But I am pretty optimistic, and I do enjoy a lot of my life.

Shalom Harlow

#21. Your mind is nirvana.

Bodhidharma