Jam Quotes - Page 2

• I signed to Def Jam and within two months, I heard that Ja Rule was looking for someone to do a song with.

  Christina Milian

  Song, Two, Months

  "Christina Milian...music maven". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• See beauty in those unexpected places. (she asked herself how people could let Bach be background noise.) See the opportunity in what looks like inconvenience. (she steered clear of the traffic jam and went to the bakery she's been meaning to stop at.) She embraces the undeclared possibility in what seems like just another ordinary day. (her friend is scheduled for cancer surgery and suddenly everything around her seems so very precious.)

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Cancer, Opportunity, Ordinary Days

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• There's probably a bunch of Power Stripe floating through the Def Jam offices right now.

  Method Man

  Office, Stripes, Floating

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• In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along with many other Seattle musicians.

  Jack Irons

  Musician, Pearls, Radio

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• Well, we have theatrical parties. It's not me singing. People like to get up and jam on the piano.

  Liza Minnelli

  Party, Piano, People

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• The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.

  Grace Abbott

  Moving On, Agency, Government

  Grace Abbott, Judith Sealander (2015). “The Grace Abbott Reader”, p.92, U of Nebraska Press

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• I was producing demos for a band that was called Physical Ed. Out of production of demos I went and did a few jam sessions with then in Northern California clubs, but I never actually toured with them.

  Ronnie Montrose

  California, Band, Clubs

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• Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.

  Van Morrison

  Opportunity, Play, Today

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• It's a very complex scenario, and certainly Dave was, and is, not the only person in Pearl Jam with personality flaws. Everybody in this band exhibits some form of neurotic behavior. And we couldn't find a balance, a mutual respect for each other.

  Stone Gossard

  Personality, Balance, Band

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• And if I'm honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like '92, right in the throes of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and Nirvana. I think I probably wanted to be Kurt Cobain.

  St. Vincent

  Thinking, Pearls, Cobain

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• I used to be obsessed with Pearl Jam, but I love having pink hair and kind of looking like a Barbie.

  Ellie Goulding

  Hair, Barbie, Pearls

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The artist that had the biggest impact on me was Michael Jackson. He was my Elvis and Beatles. When I was 15, I listened to a lot of Sinatra, but my jean jacket didnt have, I love Frank on it, it had, I love AC/DC, Guns N Roses, Pearl Jam. I thought Eddie Vedder was the second coming.

  Michael Buble

  Gun, Artist, Impact

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• Doing stand-up comedy is in the middle of a traffic jam getting everybody moving again.

  Jon Stewart

  Moving, Comedy, Middle

  "Jon Stewart, Faking It and Making It". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. July 22, 2005.

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• Check out the produce bin in your fridge or your cabinet before you buy more. When you see something on the verge of going bad, freeze it, turn it into a sauce, make jam.

  Dana Cowin

  Sauce, Cabinets, Checks

  "How ugly food can end hunger". Interview with Lauren Lee-Johnson, edition.cnn.com. November 23, 2015.

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• The jelly - the jam and the marmalade, And the cherry-and quince-'preserves' she made! And the sweet-sour pickles of peach and pear, With cinnamon in 'em, and all things rare! And the more we ate was the more to spare, Out to old Aunt Mary's! Ah!

  James Whitcomb Riley

  Sweet, Food, Aunt

  James Whitcomb Riley (1993). “The Complete Poetical Works of James Whitcomb Riley”, p.315, Indiana University Press

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• It is incumbent upon us all to raise the bar, whether you are a multibillion-dollar international corporation or a mom-and-pop selling blackberry jam.

  Howard Schmidt

  Mom, Dollars, Bars

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• You can't land on the moon and say, "Ooh, it's all sticky! It's covered in jam!

  Eddie Izzard

  Moon, Land, Sticky

  Twitter post from Feb 17, 2015

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• I really have never been concerned about being beautiful on-screen. That's just not my jam.

  Claire Danes

  Beautiful, Concerned, Screens

  "Claire Danes on Those "Claire Danes Cry Face" Memes". www.glamour.com. January 2014.

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• We would play, then they would play a set, then we would jam on the last song.

  Charlie Byrd

  Song, Play, Lasts

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• I'll use the knives for spreading jam, and the gas to warm my greying love.

  Charles Bukowski

  Knives, Use, Gas

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• Someone who eats pancakes and jam can't be so awfully dangerous. You can talk to him.

  Tove Jansson

  Pancakes, Dangerous

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• My family is full of musicians, and a couple of times a year we get together and jam at my cousin's studio. We improvise and have a great time.

  Gabriel Macht

  Cousin, Couple, Years

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Let's put the jam on the lower shelf so the little people can reach it

  Ralph Yarborough

  People, Littles, Shelves

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• When you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making red trails like the picture of a meteor in my astronomical atlas. But if you stir backwards, the jam will not come together again. Indeed, the pudding does not notice and continues to turn pink just as before. Do you think this is odd?

  Tom Stoppard

  Thinking, Together Again, Doe

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Arcadia”, p.12, Faber & Faber

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• Cheese and jam are really nice. Cheese and apple as well. Cheese and grapes are good.

  Georgie Henley

  Nice, Apples, Cheese

  "Interview: James Mcavoy & Georgie Henley (Narnia)". Interview with Devin Faraci, www.chud.com. December 8, 2005.

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