Mcshann Quotes

#1. Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here - like Count Basie, Charlie Parker and Jay McShann. I watched those guys jam in different places and heard a lot of things - but I couldn't do what they did. They were too good.

B.B. King

#2. They said Bird played bebop, but Bird could still swing. I've heard a lot of guys play bebop, but they wasn't swinging.

Jay McShann

#3. Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march.

J.K. Rowling

#4. We had an old Victrola with the old bulldog they used to have there. The horn would come out.

Jay McShann

#5. Have you ever talked to someone, and you're not even really talking to them? Actors are the worst for that.

Joe Rogan

#6. They had the music being piped right out on the street. I'd be three or four blocks from there and I couldn't get there fast enough because I'd hear old Joe holler them words.

Jay McShann

#7. The buck stops with me, but I can tick off dozens of very good senior executives that are responsible for hundreds or thousands of people who work for me.

Rupert Murdoch

#8. We didn't let a night go by that we didn't play.

Jay McShann

#9. You will treasure each moment
when you realize
who is handing it to you.

Hemat Malak

#10. It was my first time in Kansas City. In about two or three days I had a gig at a place called The Monroe Inn.

Jay McShann

#11. The estimated total number of iatrogenic deaths-that is, deaths induced inadvertently by a physician or surgeon or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedures in the US annually is 783,936 ... while 553,251 died of cancer.

Gary Null

#12. As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character; in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#13. Early sign of getting lost is fear.

Toba Beta

#14. We used to play the Savoy Ballroom, and we always had a boogie tune in the set. Bands like Tommy Dorsey used to do a little boogie woogie. The big bands.

Jay McShann

#15. My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues.

Jay McShann

#16. Pleasure is a reward, given to the human system by evolution in return for services rendered to the preservation and increase of the species.

Clive Barker

#17. All I wanted was to be part of an underground world where the sun doesn't shine, there are no love songs, and the sound of children's laughter is never, ever heard.

Hitomi Kanehara

#18. Yes, I'm a Pastor of a church called Understand Principles for Better Living Church, in Los Angeles, CA.

Della Reese

#19. Don't stare into mirrors. It's easy to get lost in there.

Eva Stachniak

#20. I was listening to all those lyrics and trying to take in everything that was happening. I was completely excited. It was one of the greatest times that I had listening to music.

Jay McShann

#21. To play Holland, you have to play the Dutch.

Ruud Gullit

#22. President Bush said the other day the war is not about timetables. It's about winning. Hey, it worked in Florida.

Jay Leno

#23. As long as Pete and Joe are there, it's gonna be jumping.

Jay McShann

#24. In my career I defined myself by my music, and the danger is that one defines oneself based on popularity. As you know, that goes up and down, and you can't judge how you feel about yourself based on what your sales is.

Kenny Loggins

#25. I had listened to Joe Turner. When they'd book Joe there, I'd play the blues behind him.

Jay McShann