Bill Crow on blessed
Bill Crow6 quotes“Roger (Kellaway) amazed us all. Blessed with great technique, he could play any style, from ragtime to space music.”
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He had a beautiful touch, knew all the best ways around the chord changes, and swung mightily. And he brought an air of cheerful competence to every date, making us all feel that it would be possible to make some very good music that day.
Bill CrowBill Crow We sailed to Italy on the Andrea Doria, a year before it sank, and Zoot (Sims) and I played a lot of ping-pong on deck during that trip.
Bill CrowBill Crow My paper route money, and later, money I earned working after school in a print shop and a butcher shop went toward buying jazz records.
Bill CrowBill Crow My reading was good enough to play big-band charts, but I ran into trouble with Claude (Thornhill)’s theme song “Snowfall,” which had a repeating bass line in D-flat that was very difficult for me to finger using my self-taught technique.
Bill CrowBill Crow Whatever style he chose to play at the moment would be filled with wonderful surprises that kept the rest of us continually delighted.
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I was blessed. I had a great childhood and great parents that loved music and family. I moved from England when I was almost 18 and been on my own ever since and have been trying to make a living in the music business for the past twelve years.
Bo BiceBo Bice I’m thrilled, I’m grateful, I’m blessed. I played for the world’s greatest professional sports team in history. Once a Dallas Cowboy, always a Dallas Cowboy.
Bob HayesBob Hayes I am blessed with a long ancestry of wisdom, prophecy, and promise, a line of overwhelming creative achievements, courage, humor, and, above all, a dogged and chronic permanence, the greatest legacy of all.
Bernice RubensBernice Rubens The Christmas spirit brings home to us-or should bring home to us-the profound Biblical truth that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Anything which inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes My wife Shanti and I are blessed with two wonderful daughters. Nothing is more important to us than protecting their future and the future of every Arkansas child.
Bill HalterBill Halter Laying down one’s rights- meekness- is a blessed virtue, one that must surely come straight from the Throne of Grace.
Beverly LewisBeverly Lewis When my body gets to the point where I can no longer function or feel gratitude, then I’ll leave it and become grateful again. But until then, I will appreciate what I have and not whine about what I don’t have,
Bernie SiegelBernie Siegel Would the Holy One, Blessed is he, dispense judgment without justice? But we may say that he whom God loves will be chastised.
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