224 Quotes About Swings

Once released from life, having lost it in such violence, I couldn’t calculate my steps. I didn’t have time for contemplation. In violence it is the getting out that you concentrate on. When you begin to go over the edge, life receding from you as a boat recedes inevitably from the shore, you hold on to death tightly, like a rope that will transport you, and you swing out on it, hoping to land away from where you are.

It ["Begin the Beguine"] became such a hit that it superseded anything that any band had ever had. It was the first time that a so-called swing band played something melodic and still gave it a beat.

'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music.

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

Shooting a movie can be so tedious. You're trying to get 20 different angles on the same swing. You never get into a rhythm. But I took it very seriously.

Say what you will about the south, but in North Carolina a hot dog is free to swing anyway it wishes.

If you hear Bing Crosby trying to swing, it doesn't work. He swings like a rusty gate.

I’m not afraid to take a swing and miss.

Swing is my favorite kind of music.