Jam Session Quotes

#1. Dick Clark was a really great influence in my career; he helped me a lot with his whole organization, and they were awesome to me at all different points - but one thing that I really disagreed with him on was when he said that what I do, pop music, is a disposable art form.

Cyndi Lauper

#2. The hell with the newspapers. Nobody reads the letters to the editor column except the nuts. It's enough to get you down.

Philip K. Dick

#3. I don't consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you're writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well, there's an element of that that's either God-given, a talent that you're not necessarily responsible for.

Al Franken

#4. Fall in love with the beauty of the heart; everything will be beautiful.

Debasish Mridha

#5. When I came to New York after high school in 1959 and started to meet musicians, 'Hot House' was like a standard jam session tune.

Chick Corea

#6. A little bird moves a mountain of sand one grain at a time it picks up one grain every million years and when the mountain has been moved the bird puts it all back again and that's how long eternity is and that's a very long time to be dead

Jenny Downham

#7. I know a few chords on the guitar, but I wouldn't be able do a show or even be part of a jam session with one.

Jake Shimabukuro

#8. This girl had me so hard I was at risk of dislocating my cock.

Missy Johnson

#9. Motivation may be a key ingredient that could allow bridging some theoretical

Anonymous

#10. My best security is within the munitions of an immutable Jehovah, where His unalterable promises stand like giant walls of rock.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#11. I always felt as a horn player, a jam session wasn't satisfying enough for me. I should have been a rhythm section player, actually.

Lee Konitz

#12. Moral life becomes a jam session in which at any time I may improvise for myself rather than play the notes in the score.

J.I. Packer

#13. Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time.

Tony Visconti

#14. Every weekend I go to the guitar bar in Hoboken and do a jam session.

Steve Capus

#15. The universe, they say, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty, and bloody-mindedness.

Terry Pratchett

#16. First, you write for yourself... always, to make sense of experience and the world around you. It's one of the ways I stay sane. Our stories, our books, our films are how we cope with the random trauma-inducing chaos of life as it plays.

Bruce Springsteen

#17. If you can pick the baby up without him squirting our of your hands like a bar of soap in the shower, he's not oiled up enough.

James Lileks

#18. She reflected on how her caller had pronounced husband - almost husbun, as though Scott had been some exotic breakfast treat, now consumed.

Stephen King

#19. I organise jam sessions every month. We have an open session, so everyone knows about it, and we can get as many as 30 people showing up at the house. Somebody will play a tune, and everyone will pick up on it. My best friends are all musicians.

Tess Gerritsen

#20. I've done loads of things people have never seen - dramas on BBC4 and plays upstairs at the Royal Court and the Bush - and because I didn't go to drama school, they gave me an education.

Rafe Spall