Top 100 Quotes About Jam
#1. Every weekend I go to the guitar bar in Hoboken and do a jam session.
Steve Capus
#2. I remember, when I was a kid, watching my mother jam herself into her girdle - a piece of equipment so rigid it could stand up on its own - and I remember her coming home from fancy parties and racing upstairs to extricate herself from its cruel iron grip.
Susan Orlean
#3. I think that where it came from and the initial birth of it - it did come out of a jam at Bruno's studio, you know? He was playing drums. And Jeff Bhasker, who co-produced the record with us, is on synths, and I was playing bass.
Mark Ronson
#5. Already a sizable traffic jam blocked the Bund. Once again the crush and clutter of Shanghai had engulfed its invaders.
J.G. Ballard
#6. At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
#7. When I was in high school, there were these British blues-rock-type bands with really good guitar players that would jam on one song for half an hour. And as much as I was amazed by some of those guitar players, seeing them prompted me to make a note that that's not something I could do.
David Byrne
#8. That's why it's called Sebastian Bach. I mean, it's a permanent band, pretty much, but if I jam with other people, it just makes a better album, I think.
Sebastian Bach
#9. And it's not that Pearl Jam was any more amazing than anyone else. I think we just liked who we were when they were who they were.
Caprice Crane
#10. That jam was so much fun that by the end of the tour, we just jammed on all of the songs.
Charlie Byrd
#11. Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam.
Grace Abbott
#12. A sip of wine, a cigarette, And then it's time to go. I tidied up the kitchenette; I tuned the old banjo. I'm wanted at the traffic-jam. They're saving me a seat.
Leonard Cohen
#14. Doing stand-up comedy is in the middle of a traffic jam getting everybody moving again.
Jon Stewart
#15. I have inherited two of the most important brands in hip-hop, Def Jam and Roc-A-Fella. Reid and Universal Music Group have given me the opportunity to manage the companies I have contributed to my whole career. I feel this is a giant step for me and the entire artist community.
Jay-Z
#16. Blake took a small roll from the tray on the table, then put it back in favor of a larger one. And maybe a little butter. It certainly couldn't hurt. And jam ... no, he drew the line at jam. She was a spy, after all.
Julia Quinn
#17. As I grew up, I wasn't a great buyer of albums, but I really liked 'The Jam.' I like good musicians and loved the energy of their songs.
Anton Du Beke
#18. There's probably a bunch of Power Stripe floating through the Def Jam offices right now.
Method Man
#19. We walked back the way we came, and even though it was dark there were no lights burning inside the houses. They were like people without hearts; raspberry tarts without the jam.
Glenda Millard
#20. Space Jam is my favorite movie. Don't ask me why, it just is.
Thom Yorke
#21. My family is full of musicians, and a couple of times a year we get together and jam at my cousin's studio. We improvise and have a great time.
Gabriel Macht
#22. I never had the slightest desire to be a major league manager, and all knew it. But Ban Johnson, Bob Hedges, and Jimmy McAleer persuaded me that the Browns were in a sort of a jam, and it was up to me, as an old standby, to do what I could.
Bobby Wallace
#23. Cheese and jam are really nice. Cheese and apple as well. Cheese and grapes are good.
Georgie Henley
#24. 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
#25. Someone who eats pancakes and jam can't be so awfully dangerous. You can talk to him.
Tove Jansson
#26. I grew up on a Christmas tree farm in Reading, PA. It was the most magical fun childhood. We had grape arbours and we would make jam with my mom. My dad would go to work and he'd come home. He'd clean out stalls and fix split-row fences.
Taylor Swift
#27. My ideal city would be one long main street with no cross streets or side streets to jam up traffic. Just a long one-way street.
Andy Warhol
#28. Fascism is the consequence of economic jam and dictatorship is the product of Fascism, for Fascism cannot be managed save by a dictator.
John T. Flynn
#29. Jam! I love my jam. I've just had a batch of it come through, I've been making it.
Kate Moss
#30. 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
#31. When you're travelling, your day is jam-packed. I just don't have time to whip out a PC all the time. But I can whip out a BlackBerry and tweet. I keep a constant diary of where I'm at and why I'm there.
Kevin O'Leary
#32. I've kept my phone on silent for a year and a half. For me, it's too much noise. It's not my jam. I like to keep things a lot more easygoing. The world's not going to stop if you don't pick up your phone.
Carly Pope
#33. Let the novelists fret about consistency - story writers should feel free to jam; to get things right in new, surprising ways by allowing themselves, now and then, to get things wrong.
Walter Kirn
#34. We've tried as hard as we can into keep the ideas intact in the hail storm that is Hollywood, so, whether he is or not, I'm personally proud of what I've been able to jam down their throats.
Zack Snyder
#35. What a day! She had gotten fired, sat in God-knows-what, got rained on, got caught in a traffic jam, been rejected three times, and, as if that weren't enough sponged on by a mooch of an alien knight who claimed he was protecting her from household appliances.
Knight of a Trillion stars
Dara Joy
#36. I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies.
Dane Cook
#37. Mike, the best band to ever come out of Seattle was, of course, Pearl Jam. And that's what I expect the Seahawks to do - just jam it up the middle.
Jon Gruden
#38. 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
#39. Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.
Eddie Vedder
#40. The only band I was really over-into was Cream. And the only thing I really liked about them was their live stuff 'cause they played two verses, then go off and jam for 20 minutes, come back and do a chorus and end. And I love the live jam stuff, the improvisation.
Eddie Van Halen
#41. I was grabbing at whatever piece was in the big pile, trying to jam it in, but it never fit right. Then I finally tried the piece that had always been right under my hand, and it fit perfectly. All the other pieces fell into place after that. You're that piece, and I need you to finish my puzzle.
Tara Carr
#42. If a car comes past me in a traffic jam with a boom box going, I jump out of my skin. Those big booming basses. I'm just more sensitive to noise these days.
George Harrison
#43. George Clooney is actually a huge prankster. That's sort of his jam. I had no idea.
Britt Robertson
#44. The Jam were a good band, however I feel that the Style Council were better. A lot of people I know will disagree with me. Some things we did with The Style Council were misinterpreted or over their heads.
Paul Weller
#45. With Dollars And Cents on the album, we had it as a band jam and I sometimes spend evenings playing with records over the top of things we were working on to see what works.
Colin Greenwood
#46. Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child loves jam, but because they think they ought to have them. That is one element which makes the crank.
Rose Macaulay
#47. We would play, then they would play a set, then we would jam on the last song.
Charlie Byrd
#48. You know,' Reg said, 'we're going to get out. We really are. Even if we have to let fire to the ceiling.' He glopped jam onto a white crawdad tail with a grit covered finger. 'But we have to eat enough of this so that we get sick and die a couple days after.
N.D. Wilson
#49. Well ironically my last three roles have all been a mother. One was a Canadian film where the baby was taken away because she is a drug addict, in Irish Jam I play a mother to a four year old. I think in the future I'll be able to handle the role with a lot more depth.
Anna Friel
#50. Louis Pasteur said, 'Chance favors the prepared mind.' If you're really engaged in the writing, you'll work yourself out of whatever jam you find yourself in.
Michael Chabon
#51. A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.
Frederik Pohl
#52. Ahh, I know." Dr. Shandy looked relieved. "Some of this wine will be just the right thing. Have some."
"Will it help?" Jam asked.
"Well, no, it never actually helps. But it's a really nice vintage.
Kaza Kingsley
#53. Figs are delicious with soft cheese and ham,
Toast is quite scrumptious with butter and jam,
Eggs are improved by parsley and salt,
But milkshakes are best with strawberries and malt.
Angelica Banks
#54. 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
#55. Despite our enormous brains and jam-packed libraries, we germ hotels cannot expect to understand absolutely everything.
Kurt Vonnegut
#56. My family was all musicians. We jam all the time.
Tyler Hilton
#57. For those dependent on their gardens for fresh food, it was often a case of feast or famine ... (One settler wrote), "Strawberries were now so plentiful that ... I made 287 lbs of jam ... "
Bee Dawson
#58. The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.
Grace Abbott
#59. Mostly, I just like to write music and spend time with my family and friends and jam.
Aubrey Peeples
#60. Science is my JAM. I am very excited to see where science and technological advancements will take us in the next few decades.
Benjamin Stone
#61. In the '90s, I think I rediscovered my guitar. The Jam was obviously very guitar-based, but in the Style Council I just got really disillusioned with playing the guitar. The further it went on, the less and less I played, to a point where I couldn't pick it up any more.
Paul Weller
#62. Literary Party: A traffic jam of the lost waiting for the ferry across the Styx.
Delmore Schwartz
#63. If we could get out of this jam by giving up Malta and Gibraltar and some African colonies I would jump at it. But the only safe way is to convince Hitler that he cannot beat us.
Winston Churchill
#64. What is it with McDonald's staff who pretend they don't understand you unless you insert the 'Mc' before the item you're ordering? It has to be a McChicken burger ... a chicken burger gets blank looks. Well, I'll have a McStraw and jam it into your McEyes, you f**cking McTosser!
Billy Connolly
#65. I've never been a jam-band sort of musician.
Tom DeLonge
#66. Now I am within thirty yards of him. He must fall. The gun pours out its stream of lead. Then it jams. Then it reopens fire. That jam almost saved his life.
Manfred Von Richthofen
#67. With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, Can I sing this part, or, I want to play guitar. I feel like I have more courage to do that.
Jeff Ament
#68. If you ever find yourself in a jam, just take a moment to sit and think; calculate things, look at every angle, and then wonder where all that jam came from.
Melanie Kay Taylor
#69. It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth.
Rebecca West
#70. We either put out 6 different flavors of jam or 24 different flavors of jam and we looked at 2 things. First, in what case were people more likely to buy a jar of jam?
Sheena Iyengar
#71. I was given the task of I.P.L. Chairmanship which I tried to perform to the best of my abilities. The tournament was organised well despite all the controversies. The stadiums were jam-packed, which proved that I.P.L. was still popular.
Rajeev Shukla
#72. Why do you need to drive a Ferrari to get stuck in a traffic jam anyway? How do people afford these cars?
James Murdoch
#73. The Robertson family and bad ideas go together like biscuits and jam.
Willie Robertson
#74. What's with you all, anyway? You jam a stick up your own arse then preen at how tall and straight your standing.
Steven Erikson
#75. There's no traffic jam on the extra mile.
Zig Ziglar
#76. Maybe I fell in love with the idea of love, but I'm a teenage girl. This morning I fell in love with raspberry jam and a puppy in a tiny raincoat. I'm not exactly Earth's top authority on the subject.
Leah Raeder
#77. The guy we want to get is the guy who did the Aerosmith album which is coming out in two days, and a Chili Peppers album, and a couple of Pearl Jam albums. We want to get someone that will sort of bring out the high energy aspect more than the dreaminess that was on the last album.
Mike Gordon
#78. Any kind of peanut butter/chocolate concoction is my jam.
Floriana Lima
#79. I'm not a big believer in trying to jam stuff down somebody's throat: 'You're going to do it my way.' I'd rather show by example and live my life and have people say, 'You know what, I want to live like Joel has. He's got peace and joy, and he seems content.'
Joel Osteen
#80. When you love something, whether it's jam and cheese sandwiches or wearing your pyjamas as pants, you forget that it was ever anything other than commonplace.
Elisha Lim
#81. It is like sitting in a traffic jam on the San Diego Freeway with your windows rolled up and Portuguese music booming out of the surround-sound speakers while animals gnaw on your neck and diseased bill collectors hammer on your doors with golf clubs.
Hunter S. Thompson
#82. Drivers in a traffic jam, frustrated by each others presence, are not the most amiable of men.
David Riesman
#83. That's why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I'm always the last one to leave.
Elvis Presley
#84. Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.
Trey Anastasio
#85. M. and I ground against each other as if we were ill-fitting jigsaw pieces determined to jam together, even though one showed sidewalk, the other sky.
Dexter Palmer
#86. Music came first and I started to jam with people I couldn't communicate in their language. Then, because I could make friends thanks to music, they started to talk to me. Then I started to learn English.
Hiromi
#87. My parents only played Isley Brothers, Marvin Gaye. That's when New Kids came out, and we wanted to jam that. My mom was like, "Put that thing off and put my damn record on". So from old school to '90s to recent, it's just always been there.
Solange Knowles
#88. I would love to go and live in the mountains ... and make jam.
Eve Best
#89. I really have never been concerned about being beautiful on-screen. That's just not my jam.
Claire Danes
#91. I don't want the finer things in life, like preserves of jam and thick soft quilts, until I get what I need: the machinery to make that stuff for me.
M.C. Humphreys
#92. Check out the produce bin in your fridge or your cabinet before you buy more. When you see something on the verge of going bad, freeze it, turn it into a sauce, make jam.
Dana Cowin
#93. 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
#94. And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended.
[Lat., Itidemque ut saepe jam in multis locis,
Plus insciens quis fecit quam prodens boni.]
Plautus
#95. Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.
Jean Baudrillard
#96. No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend's house. [Lat., Hospes nullus tam in amici hospitium diverti potest, Quin ubi triduum continuum fuerit jam odiosus siet.
Plautus
#97. It takes forty muscles to frown, and only twelve to jam a cupcake in your mouth and get over it.
Sarah Ockler
#98. You build desires, and as a result, rather than just being who and what you are, you create one, ten, hundreds of false egos, which in turn create more desires until there's no sense of self left anywhere in the jam-packed auditorium of schizophrenic nobodies.
Trent Zelazny
#99. Cancer - a more or less permanent traffic jam in the body.
Andreas Moritz
#100. 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
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