Quotes About Bix Beiderbecke

#1. English banjo players really were a law unto themselves - you don't find that kind of brisk banjo playing on the original Louis Armstrong or Bix Beiderbecke records.

Pete Townshend

#2. I didn't want to rush things. Well, I did want to, but I know when I shouldn't. I wanted to push her up against the door, rip off her panties, and ram myself into her, but I suspected she wouldn't appreciate it as much as I would

C.J. Roberts

#3. Even the best thief in the world can't steal time.

Ally Carter

#4. One thing I like about jazz, kid, is that I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?

Bix Beiderbecke

#5. People are actually having conversations about "Is this sexist?"

Kathleen Hanna

#6. I'd go to hell to hear a good band.

Bix Beiderbecke

#7. Mal snickered.
"What's so funny?"
"I just pictured the Darkling being cornered by a sweaty duchess trying to have her way with him.

Leigh Bardugo

#8. I do not wish to die: but I care not if I were dead.
[Lat., Emori nolo: sed me esse mortuum nihil aestimo.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#9. Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very quiet if only those birds sing there that sang best.

Henry Van Dyke

#10. When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.

Marilyn Monroe

#11. The jazz band's chief stimulus, of course, was the rise of the negro 'blues' and their exploitation by the negro song-writer, W. C. Handy.

Bix Beiderbecke

#12. This isn't missionary work. This is missionary fun.

Neil L. Andersen

#13. We all make choices, Cossack. Who we are in this world, what we do in it. Generous or selfish. Happy or sad. Good or evil. It's all down to choice.

Anthony Horowitz

#14. Hot lovin' every night.

Huey Lewis

#15. I have learned that as soon as you introduce controls on human behavior, you lose the game, particularly when those controls are at odds with the work.

John Seddon

#16. My first piece of career advice is find your gifting. Find the thing that you are skilled at and figure out if you can make a living doing it.

Michelle Singletary