"I was a beginner again. I practiced hard and used to listen very closely to recordings of American jazz drummers such as Tony Williams and Kenny Clarke."

American, Jazz

52

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I was a beginner again. I practiced hard and used to listen very closely to recordings of American jazz drummers such as Tony Williams and Kenny Clarke."

Exlpore more American quotes

"Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

American, Americans, Will

"I keep forgetting I'm speaking in an American accent sometimes. The dangerous thing is that you end up forgetting what your real accent is after a while! It's really strange; I've never done a job in an American accent before."

Robert Pattinson, English Actor

American, End, Job

"I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult."

Arthur Miller, American Playwright

American, Culture, Enemies, Friends

"We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big."

Carly Simon, American Musician

American, Jazz, Theater

"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

American, Trying

"So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda."

John Steinbeck, American Author

American, Coffee, Pride

"I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?'"

Malin Akerman, Swedish Actress

American, First, Months, Past

"Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial."

Eric Holder, American Public Servant

American, Americans, Nation, Race, Talk

"Regis has a great rapport with the American public."

Wink Martindale, American Entertainer

American, Public, Rapport

"I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop."

Michael Caine, English Actor

American, Quiet

Explore more quotes by Jamie Muir

"The reasons why I left were to do with my interest in Buddhism. There were experiences over a period of about six months which caused me to decide to give up music, so one morning I felt I had to go to E.G. Management and tell them."

Music, Management, Buddhism, Interest

"At the art college in Edinburgh someone arranged for some London groups to come up and play. I was in a supporting band, with Bernie Green I think. Derek Bailey was one of the visiting musicians. He seemed to like my playing and asked me to come down to London."

Art, College, London, Musicians

"Touring with King Crimson wasn't a lot of fun for me. I had a lot of equipment, and when I was in improvised music I'd set it up myself, play the gig, and put it all away again."

Music, Fun, Play

"He was very much concerned with logic and function, he always worked his solos out before playing them."

Logic,

"The first time it felt really dangerous, like the sort of thing you had to lock the doors and close the curtains on because if anybody saw you, God would strike you down with a thunderbolt. But I took to it like a duck to water."

Time, God, First, Water

"King Crimson were the only really famous band I'd been in."

Famous,

"I was a beginner again. I practiced hard and used to listen very closely to recordings of American jazz drummers such as Tony Williams and Kenny Clarke."

American, Jazz

"Anyway, it fell through because they ran out of money. That was when I learned not to waste your time getting your hopes up or to believe something until it actually happens. We broke up for various reasons, but it was a good band. Jim and Don produced some magical music."

Music, Time, Money, Waste

"Allan had come down wanting to do some sort of crucial music and I'd been involved in so-called Art Music and wanted to explore other areas - we were approaching it in some quite tongue-in-cheek ways and we had a lot of fun - we spent more time laughing than playing music."

Art, Music, Time, Fun

"There wasn't much work around at the time, I think I found a bit in Germany or something, but we played together and somehow the bassist Laurie Baker got involved as well - I can't remember exactly how."

Work, Time, Germany