Kansas City famous quotes
03-26-2025
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Like every other place, I guess, Kansas City was quite a different city when I was a youngster there. They had quite a few clubs, and we had what we used to call jam sessions every night.
-- Ben Webster -
The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive garage music, and also, we've had everything in the band from jazz players to Kansas City trumpet players to Nils Lofgren, one of the great rock guitarists in the world.
-- Bruce Springsteen -
I got everything I wanted. When I was young in Kansas City, I knew nothing about Frank Sinatra, Billy Eckstine, Ella Fitzgerald, of all those concert halls, of all those countries. I did not know what it was like to direct a band... All I wanted was to be big, to be in show-business, and to travel...and that's what I've been doing all my life.
-- Count Basie -
If I had the hand strength to sign autographs for everybody in Kansas City, I would... but its just impossible to get to everyone.
-- Dante Hall -
I spent a majority of my life in Kansas City, so I am a Chiefs and Royals guy. I used to work for the Royals for like five years in the suites department and in the stadium club restaurant.
-- David Cook -
With the Chiefs, you can't live in Kansas City and not like the Chiefs. To go catch a game at Arrowhead is a pretty great experience. I haven't had the chance to go to games anywhere else, but, from what I'm told, I don't really need to.
-- David Cook -
There are people walking around the streets of Kansas City who are unemployed, while one of our largest employers is not only sending jobs aboard, but then turning around and making a statement about preserving jobs.
-- Emanuel Cleaver -
Starbucks has stores in America in many, many communities that are governed by many, many different municipalities. Starbucks cannot dictate to a municipality in Cincinnati or Kansas City or Sacramento how or why or when there should be a recycling program.
-- Howard Schultz -
Further south, there are some airports, but none our size. Our airport is the gateway to the southern Kansas City.
-- James Green -
Where else but in America could a schoolteacher from Kansas City end up the governor of her adopted state?
-- Jane D. Hull -
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 -
I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even get credit. Kansas City style, Chicago style, New Orleans style hell, they're all Jelly Roll style.
-- Jelly Roll Morton -
Over a 10-season stretch from 1967 to 1976, eight Super Bowl champions either were the Raiders or had to beat the Raiders in the playoffs. The Jets, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Baltimore Colts, Miami, the Steelers each of the first two times... we all had to deal with the Raiders.
-- Joe Greene -
If you're playing for the Kansas City Royals about all you can do is beat your head against the wall.
-- John Kruk -
You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper.
-- Mort Walker -
Ev'rythin's up to date in Kansas City.
-- Oscar Hammerstein II -
I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young
-- Pat Metheny -
We were 6-4 and everybody doubted us. We lost to the Kansas City Chiefs and that week we had a players meeting and really talked about where we really want to go. It's not about the record. At the end of the day it comes down to are we going to keep focusing on each other and are we going to keep getting better day by day? We ignored the noise, we ignored all the talk from the outside.
-- Russell Wilson -
A portrait of the young Charlie Parker with a degree of vivid detail never before approached. . . [Kansas City Lightning is] a deft, virtuosic panorama of early jazz. . . This is a mind-opening, and mind-filling, book.
-- Tom Piazza -
I was at the 1976 Republican Convention in Kansas City. I was running 'Nobody for President' at the time. I printed up these press releases and handed them out to the crowd at the Kemper Arena. 'Nobody keeps campaign promises.' 'Nobody lowers your taxes.' 'Nobody should have that much power.' 'Nobody is in Washington working for you.'
-- Wavy Gravy -
I had no administrative function at the New Yorker. I am what we used to call in construction back in Kansas City where I grew up "a dog-ass subcontractor."
-- Kevin Sessums -
I was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and I do know from what my parents tell me that I was always interested in art, although not very good at it.
-- Warren MacKenzie -
I really like Kansas City Royals stadium - Kauffman Stadium.
-- Bert Blyleven
