Louie Bellson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Tommy Dorsey would walk up to you if you had a tuxedo on and make sure you didn't have on white socks.
-- Louie Bellson

#White #Tuxedos #Jazz
My father owned a music store when I was growing up in Rock Falls, Illinois. He could play all the instruments, which you had to do when you owned a music store back then. One day, when I was three years old, he took me to a parade. When the drums passed by, I got so excited I told him wanted to learn to play them.
-- Louie Bellson

#Growing Up #Father #Fall
My first big break was with the Ted Fio Rito band. Fio Rito had a bunch of record hits in the 1930s and did a lot of radio work back then. When he came to my home town in early 1942, I sat in with the band. Ted liked me and offered me a job.
-- Louie Bellson

#Jobs #Home #Band
This has got to be the greatest school for lab bands in the country. It's great because Leon Breeden and his staff have devoted their lives - not just their time and talent - to build it.
-- Louie Bellson

#Country #School #Band

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more. And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow.
Gilbert White discovered the formula for complete happiness, but he died before making the announcement, leaving it for me to do so. It is to be very busy with the unimportant.
I love writing, but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time but those days are over, Giftless. I'm not your agent and I'm not your mommy: I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.
The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.
White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
Tommy Dorsey would walk up to you if you had a tuxedo on and make sure you didn't have on white socks.
We are combining elements like tuxedos and workwear, for contrast; some looks also are based on 30s-era inspirations.
Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well.
Pain can be washed out with a song. / Pain can become jazz digested and transformed.
Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family.

Louie Bellson famous quotes

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