Pete Fountain famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy.
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If you're making money people don't think you're playing Jazz. When you're not making money they think you're a great Jazz musician.
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I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets.
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If I had grown up in any place but New Orleans, I don't think my career would have taken off. I wouldn't have heard the music that was around this town. There was so much going on when I was a kid.
-- Pete Fountain
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Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.
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Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
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Tie my handlebars to the stars so I stay on track & if my intentions stray I'll wrench them away,then I'll take my leave & I won't even look back
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National Socialism is what Marxism might have been if it could have broken its absurd and artificial ties with the democratic order.
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It was my mustache that landed jobs for me. In those silent-film days it was the mark of a villain. When I realized they had me pegged as a foreign nobleman type I began to live the part, too. I bought a pair of white spats, an ascot tie and a walking stick.
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No farmer-sportsman group is stronger than the ties of mutual confidence and enthusiasm which bind its members.
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We have new developing ties with Japan whom always supports our democratic process and economic development.
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Whether you like another bands music or not you never know who is going to take you out on tour or who you are going to be friends with and that is just something that is important to us.
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Everything is completely democratic in this band so far and that is the way that we would like to keep it.
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He's a million rubber bands in his resilience.
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