Stan Kenton Quotes

#1. Why don't you steal the pattern out of Kenton's '23 Degrees North, 82 Degrees West'?" the trombonist, an alumnus of Stan Kenton's big band, said.

James Kaplan

#2. Mike Vax plays trumpet the way you have to play in order to hold down the lead chair with Stan Kenton.

Jon Hendricks

#3. As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespe.

Jim Coleman

#4. What I said was that I was at first supportive of Bernie [Sanders] when he came to Los Angeles for his first rally, I was there, I was supportive.

Tom Hayden

#5. That's the hardest part,' he says. 'The absence of certainty.' - Tucker

Cynthia Hand

#6. I'd be really jealous of me too. I mean, what's not to envy? No friends, no family, no future - but it's OK because guess what? I'm the White Light. Well Whooppeee Do.

Sarah Alderson

#7. When you get to the top, don't forget to send the elevator down for the next guy.

Stan Kenton

#8. Some of the wise boys who say my music is loud, blatant and that's all should see the faces of the kids who have driven a hundred miles through the snow to see the band ... to stand in front of the bandstand in an ecstasy all their own.

Stan Kenton

#9. Whenever you play dance music, it serves a function. It becomes a utility; you have to worry about the tempos and what you're going to play for people. But when you're playing for listening, you're free.

Stan Kenton

#10. It had been so brief a sojourn, not even a full century. He had been a guest in a mansion and he was not ungrateful. He was at once exhausted and refreshed. His stay was ended. Now he must gather up the shabby impedimenta of his mind and body and be on his way again.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#11. I may lead you wrong now and then, but in the end, you can be sure that I'm always a safe bet.

Robert Jordan

#12. One recognises one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.

Albert Camus

#13. I feel blessed that I managed to fight 46 fights undefeated, that I was a world champion for 11 years, one of the longest reigning champions of all time and I like to think that I come out looking pretty good.

Joe Calzaghe

#14. I am the LORD who heals you.

Anonymous

#15. If you do everything with love and joy, you will find your soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. If you memorize the periodic table it will speed you up if you're a chemist, but by and large, the reason you have a periodic table is so that you can store that information outside of your body. That way it frees up some part of your brain to do something else.

Bill Nye

#17. I don't think you can replaces great themes. But I think people do want to hear fresh arrangements of them. They don't want to hear them played the same way all the time.

Stan Kenton