top of page
.png){kind=small}
More
"My husband is a general's chauffeur somewhere in France."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The best thing I know between France and England is the sea."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The 1984 European Championships were held in France and that was something important. I felt on form then, even though I was practically always injured at all the World Cups. It's a great memory. But in any case, the past is past."
Author Name
Personal Development
"When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Sometimes, but the year I lived in France I started to write songs."
Author Name
Personal Development
"France needs to find something that makes it stand out. It's not enough for it to do almost as well as its neighbors."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I always knew I would live in France."
Author Name
Personal Development
"In France, everyone speaks French 'cause they think it's cool. Gives 'em, gives 'em an excuse to smoke."
Author Name
Personal Development
"France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I like going to France, because no one knows who I am."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener."
End
"I don't enjoy traveling in America. I don't like the food, the cars. It is not exotic enough. It all tastes a bit like airline food."
Food
"There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all."
Music
"I don't think you can ever regain your ignorance."
Ignorance
"When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything."
Music
"One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'."
Art
"When you have 13 horns, and one is soloing, you have 12 people to play the richest, fullest chord you could ever imagine behind that solo."
People
"Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best."
Talent
"Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving."
Music
"When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key."
France
bottom of page