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I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins.

Quote by Quincy Jones about school, things

Just blow in it and sound bad for about a year and then make it sound a little bit better, and you get a little band together, and then you get a few jobs. You take four guys that sound half bad, but if they're 25 percent each, they can give 100...

Quote by Quincy Jones about bad luck, bad, contentment

The band was working 70 one-nighters in a row all through the south, doing 700 miles a night, with these guys that had been out there 30 years. I used to watch the old guys. I really respected their wisdom.

Quote by Quincy Jones about night, wisdom, old, olderness

While I was in Boston, sure enough this lady, Janet Thurlow, who was in the Lionel Hampton band, kept reminding them of me, and they called me one day and I was so happy.

Quote by Quincy Jones about happiness, day

On every band trip one important piece of percussion equipment will be left at the performance site.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy

Players late for rehearsal are always those who sit in the centre of the band.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy

It comes down to building your own world out here on the road. It's who you surround yourself with. My band and crew are really positive guys.

Quote by Brad Paisley about opinion, world, contentment

Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is.

Quote by Brad Paisley about opinion, day, family

It was with Ronnie's band that I first met my old mate Benny Green. He was reading a blue cover Penguin, a classic, the first jazz musician I ever saw reading such a volume.

Quote by Michael Parkinson about opinion, old, olderness