Quotes About Jam Sessions

#1. Regarding jam sessions: Jazz musicians are the only workers I can think of who are willing to put in a full shift for pay and then go somewhere else and continue to work for free.

George Carlin

#2. Some of my biggest moments have been in jam sessions, but I don't want to talk about them. There were always other people involved.

Coleman Hawkins

#3. Like every other place, I guess, Kansas City was quite a different city when I was a youngster there. They had quite a few clubs, and we had what we used to call jam sessions every night.

Ben Webster

#4. I was always trying to do architectural jam sessions. But it's not quite as easy as singing or playing a guitar, so I would always see wonderful live musicians and just envy them that I wasn't in that medium.

Catherine Hardwicke

#5. That's why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I'm always the last one to leave.

Elvis Presley

#6. 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

#7. I used to love going and playing jam sessions, doing things spontaneously. I can't do that anymore. Everything you do is documented, nothing is casual anymore.

Pat Metheny

#8. My first place in Nashville was like 'Animal House.' The whole band lived under one roof, and most nights the jam sessions ended close to sunrise.

Charlie Worsham

#9. I was producing demos for a band that was called Physical Ed. Out of production of demos I went and did a few jam sessions with then in Northern California clubs, but I never actually toured with them.

Ronnie Montrose

#10. The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#11. Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame.

Benjamin Franklin

#12. Give until it hurts.

Corazon Cojuangco Aquino

#13. If any of you have ever lived down south of the Mason-Dixon line, you know that late September still means summer heat.

Scott Porter

#14. Once the rain starts falling it's hard to tell it to stop ...

Samantha Young

#15. Big goals only increase motivation," explains Latham,14 "when the person setting those goals is confident in their ability to achieve them. This means breaking big goals apart into achievable subgoals.

Peter H. Diamandis