Jacquet Quotes

#1. 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.

Illinois Jacquet

#2. Our mission as Christians is to conform ourselves evermore to Jesus as the model of our lives.

Pope Francis

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Nancy Cavin Pitts

#4. 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

#5. Share weight and woe, for misfortune falls with double force on him that stands alone.

Baltasar Gracian

#6. Some people swear there's no beauty left in the world, no magic. Then how do you explain the entire world coming together on one night to celebrate the hope of a new year?

Claire Morgan

#7. Happy birthday", I whispered.

E.L. James

#8. 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

#9. We'll always be fucking, Gillian" He smiled, biting my lip before tossing me onto the bed. "That's the best part of us.

Whitney G.

#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. 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

#12. We all have some version of a fantasy that's easy to escape to, and we all want a real relationship where there's a common give-and-take and you're seen for who you are, and appreciated for that.

Keri Russell

#13. 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

#14. The dining room is a building; the bathroom is a building. If we scatter this single-program architecture inside of a domestic environment, we can link an interior urbanism in a way similar to a village or a township of tiny houses.

Jimenez Lai

#15. When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, 'cause that was the best game. And these guys, they'd let me play. And they were black guys.

Larry Bird

#16. I had shaved my beard for her-a huge disappointment, because I'd enjoyed my three weeks looking like a bank robber.

Jennifer Echols