Jam Quotes - Page 14

• The fact that he had foamed at the mouth immediately upon dying, indicated that he had a great back jam of wishes and desires and truths that were never spoken...out bubbled all the words he had swallowed when he was alive.

  Kaye Gibbons

  Wish, Dying, Desire

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• We did make use, from time to time, of candles, neckties, scarves, shoelaces, a little water-color paintbrush, her hairbrush, butter, whipped cream, strawberry jam, Johnson’s Baby Oil, my Swedish hand vibrator, a fascinating bead necklace she had, miscellaneous common household items, and every molecule of flesh that was exposed to air or could be located with strenuous search.

  Spider Robinson

  Baby, Air, Hands

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• We eat pancakes to escape loneliness, yet within moments we want nothing more than our freedom from ever having so much as thought about pancakes. Nothing can prevent us, after eating pancakes, from feeling the most awful regret. After eating pancakes, our great mission in life becomes the repudiation of the pancakes and everything served along with them, the bacon and the syrup and the sausage and coffee and jellies and jams. But these things are beneath mention, compared with the pancakes themselves. It is the pancake--Pancakes! Pancakes!--that we never learn to respect.

  Donald Antrim

  Regret, Loneliness, Coffee

  Donald Antrim (2011). “The Verificationist: A Novel”, p.66, Macmillan

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• Our nights didn't begin until after noon. Because in the old days, you'd start Birdland at 8:30 or 9 pm and play until 4 in the morning. Then you'd go out to the corner and talk to a couple of musicians - I used to talk to Oscar Pettiford a whole lot - you'd stand there till 7, 8 or 9, or else go down to the jam session at Minton's.

  Charles Mingus

  Morning, Couple, Night

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• I approach song writing three different ways. One way is where I write the initial melody and lyrics first and then take it in to the producer to collaborate. Another way is where the producer sends me his initial musical track ideas and then I write the lyrics and melody over his track. The third way is where we just jam out in the studio and see what we come up with.

  Manika

  Song, Writing, Ideas

  Source: www.kidzworld.com

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• I used to live at the Cecil Hotel, which was next door to Minton's [Playhouse]. We used to jam just about every night when we were off. Lester [Young], Don Byas and myself - we would meet there all the time and like, exchange ideas. It wasn't a battle, or anything. We were all friends. Most of the guys around then knew where I lived. If someone came in Minton's and started to play - well, they'd give me a ring, or come up and call me down. Either I'd take my horn down, or I'd go down and listen. Those were good days. Had a lot of fun then.

  Ben Webster

  Fun, Good Day, Night

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• My comedy has no color, it's for everybody, black, white, Latino, Asian. It's not a pro-black show, not a def jam show; it's just straight, wholesome type of humor.

  Bruce Bruce

  Color, White, Black

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• First, learn how to report traffic jams, then you can talk about football. 
  (on Bulgarian journalists)

  Ivan Slavkov

  Football, Firsts, Bulgarians

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• Me + Love Songs on KOST=embarrassing car jam sesh.

  Joanna Garcia

  Song, Car, Embarrassing

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• I found a guy in the Bronx who had an old plywood Kay bass that he wanted $75 for. He held it for me, and I gave him a few dollars every time I could scrape some extra money together. Meanwhile I borrowed or rented basses for jam sessions and paying jobs. It was a great thrill when I finally took possession of my Kay.

  Bill Crow

  Jobs, Guy, Together

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• I don't know enough about hip-hop, though I've heard some great hip-hop. I just did a thing with Qwest Love - we did a performance together in Memphis at the Folk Alliance Festival, and we had a great jam and a conversation.

  Bela Fleck

  Hip Hop, Together, Alliances

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We are probably the most frustrating band to soundcheck because we always go off on jams and our sound-man is sitting there going: "oh god, I don't want to interrupt this, but... we've got to get things moving along..." We're just easily distracted because we want to be writing all the time!

  Theresa Wayman

  Moving, Writing, Men

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• An important meeting point for me was realizing the similarity between a DJ set and a Grateful Dead set: I grew up listening to how the Dead would take a song and just jam on it, and then transition into another song.

  Avey Tare

  Song, Grateful, Listening

  "The Strangest Trip: Animal Collective on the Legacy of Animal Collective". Interview with Matthew Schnipper, pitchfork.com. February 8, 2016.

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• Paul Ryan, who teamed up with Akin in the House to sponsor harsh anti-abortion bills, may look young and hip and new generation, with his iPod full of heavy metal jams and his cute kids. But he's just a fresh face on a Taliban creed - the evermore antediluvian, anti-women, anti-immigrant, anti-gay conservative core. Amiable in khakis and polo shirts, Ryan is the perfect modern leader to rally medieval Republicans who believe that Adam and Eve cavorted with dinosaurs.

  Maureen Dowd

  Cute, Believe, Kids

  "Just think No" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. August 21, 2012.

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• There's no traffic jam on the extra mile.

  Zig Ziglar

  Miles, Traffic, Congestion

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Nov 21, 2014

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• Someone is putting brandy in your bonbons, Grand Marnier in your breakfast jam, Kahlua in your ice cream, Scotch in your mustard and Wild Turkey in your cake.

  Marian Burros

  Food, Scotch, Ice Cream

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• We’re super fortunate in Pearl Jam to have such loyal fans...who really want to come & see us play.

  Stone Gossard

  Play, Fans, Loyal

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• I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head.

  John Updike

  Book, Writing, Novelists

  FaceBook post by John Updike from Dec 22, 2013

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• If our goal is to be tolerant of people who are different than we are, then we really are aiming quite low. Traffic jams are to be tolerated. People are to be celebrated.

  Glennon Melton

  People, Goal, Tolerance

  Glennon Doyle Melton (2014). “Carry On, Warrior: The Power of Embracing Your Messy, Beautiful Life”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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• Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few feet above the cowering village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Hate, Feet, People

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “Pnin”, p.25, Vintage

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• Rick Santorum is so conservative; he thinks KY Jelly is jam made in Kentucky.

  Jay Leno

  Thinking, Kentucky, Jelly

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