Tommy Dorsey Quotes

#1. Sinatra once said that the only two people he was ever afraid of were his mother and Tommy Dorsey - a flip comment but also a sincere and deeply significant one.

James Kaplan

#2. Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Eckstine, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Paul Whiteman, Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra, Lionel Hampton, the Mills Brothers, Woody Herman, and Nat King Cole. "Mona Lisa, men have named you,

George Hodgman

#3. I joined Tommy Dorsey at the Paramount Theater in New York as a singer. I replaced Frank Sinatra.

Ken Curtis

#4. Tommy Dorsey would walk up to you if you had a tuxedo on and make sure you didn't have on white socks.

Louie Bellson

#5. He taught me everything I know. Every note I write I learned from that man upstairs. People rave over my arranging today, and I just think to myself, God bless Tommy Dorsey. If it hadn't been for him, I never could have done it.

Nelson Riddle

#6. 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

#7. My greatest teacher was not a vocal coach, not the work of other singers, but the way Tommy Dorsey breathed and phrased on the trombone.

Frank Sinatra

#8. Tommy Dorsey was the last of the band leaders ... He was ahead of his time; if he got drunk, he got difficult, but then who the hell isn't difficult when you get drunk.

Dick Haymes

#9. Bebop has set music back twenty years.

Tommy Dorsey

#10. In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits.

Mignon McLaughlin

#11. Leave your mark on the world by leaving behind a child who grows up to love and serve the Lord.

Elizabeth George

#12. Maybe he thought trading his freedom for ours would be the only honest trade he'd ever make,

Chris Colfer

#13. God created women beautiful - so that men can love them - and stupid - so that they can love men.

Faina Ranevskaya

#14. I wish you wouldn't make the strings such an important part of your arrangements because frankly they're only a tax dodge!

Tommy Dorsey

#15. In any civilized society the most important task is achieving a proper balance between freedom and order. In wartime, reason and history both suggest that this balance shifts in favor ... of the government's ability to deal with conditions that threaten the national well-being.

William Rehnquist

#16. Passion for a goal doesn't guarantee success, but without it, you can't even begin.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#17. The golden rule for playing the bass is that's it all about feel, not just plonking away. You need to feel the sound, not using a pick or a plectrum - which has meant plenty of calluses on my fingers.

Suzi Quatro

#18. As I step off at the surface at Taurus-Littrow, I'd like to dedicate the first step of Apollo 17 to all those who made it possible.

Gene Cernan

#19. For me, people see me working with my celebrity clients, but it's important to show people how they can make their lives their own red carpet every day.

Brad Goreski

#20. You won't find a CEO who doesn't talk about a 'powerful culture' as a source of competitive advantage. At the same time, you'd be hard-pressed to find a CEO who has much of a clue about the strength of that culture.

Marcus Buckingham

#21. The more you didn't want to bump into someone, sod's law dictated that the more often you would.

Jill Mansell

#22. When you take an Android device out of the box, you have to sign up to nine accounts with different vendors to get the experience iOS comes with.

Phil Schiller

#23. So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name

Tori Amos

#24. Each of us is the best we can be when we are fully present, focused yet relaxed, curious yet non-judgmental, committed yet flexible.

John Kuypers