Jay McShann famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues.
-- Jay McShann

#Christian #Play #Kansas
They said Bird played bebop, but Bird could still swing. I've heard a lot of guys play bebop, but they wasn't swinging.
-- Jay McShann

#Music #Swings #Play
I had listened to Joe Turner. When they'd book Joe there, I'd play the blues behind him.
-- Jay McShann

#Book #Play #Turner
I was listening to all those lyrics and trying to take in everything that was happening. I was completely excited. It was one of the greatest times that I had listening to music.
-- Jay McShann

#Listening #Trying #Excited
It was my first time in Kansas City. In about two or three days I had a gig at a place called The Monroe Inn.
-- Jay McShann

#Cities #Kansas City #Two
We had an old Victrola with the old bulldog they used to have there. The horn would come out.
-- Jay McShann

#Horny #Bulldogs #Used

Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.
All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman, Judeo- Christian culture has always known was lost. Where it exists, we do not know, although we always have envisioned it as a garden...always as removed, as an enclosed green place...Paradise is an ancient dream...It is a dream of ourselves as better than we are, back to what we were.
It is said about Lord Buddha sadaya-hrdaya darsita-pasu-ghatam. He saw the whole human race going to hell by this animal killing. So he appeared to teach ahimsa, nonviolence, being compassionate on the animals and human beings. In the Christian religion also, it is clearly stated, 'Thou shall not kill'. So everywhere animal killing is restricted. In no religion the unnecessary killing of animals is allowed. But nobody is caring. The killing process is increasing, and so are the reactions. Every ten years you will find a war. These are the reactions.
Hell is the place where one has ceased to hope.
Matt Hock was the first person who showed me how much fun and how cool it can be to be a Christian,
It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great.
I have an affinity for Africa, especially East Africa, and Kansas looks very much like that.
He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices.
Although I grew up in London, I spent summers in Missouri, where my dad lived. It's quite a liberal town, Kansas City. You'd be surprised.

Jay McShann famous quotes

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