“I was a schooled musician. When I made 'Blue Velvet', I told everyone what to do. I was an arranger. I learned music in school I told the band to play this. I told the guitar to do that.” MadePlaySchoolBandMusicianBlueGuitarVelvetSchooledMusic In SchoolsBlue Velvet Author:Bobby Vinton
“The fog lifted in the evening and a blue-black band at the horizon marked the end of the sea and the beginning of thought. Where does a beginning begin when nothing has gone on before?” DoeEndsBlackGoneSeaBandOceanBlueEveningHorizonFog Book:A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning Source: A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning
“Amid the gray, an incongruous band of daytime blue asserts itself. To the west, a pink sun already begins its descent. The effect is of three isolated aspects, distinct phases of the day. All of it, strewn across the horizon, is contained in his vision.” ThreeVisionSunEffectsBandAspectBlueWestHorizonGrayIsolatedPhasesDescentDaytime Author:Jhumpa Lahiri
“At a few hundred kilometers altitude, the Earth fills half your sky, and the band of blue that stretches from Mindanao to Bombay, which your eye encompasses in a single glance, can break your heart with its beauty. Home you think. Home. This is my world. This is where I come from. Everyone I know, everyone I ever heard of, grew up down there, under that relentless and exquisite blue.” ThinkingKnowsWorldHeartHomeEyeEarthHalfBreakHeardSkyGrewBandGrew UpHundredBlueGlancesExquisiteRelentlessBreak Your HeartBombay Book:Contact Source: Contact
“Too Blue is a fantastic band with great singing, great picking and large dollops of creativity. The album features beautifully clean production values and the sound is always fresh. I was impressed. I think you will be too.” ThinkingValuesSoundCreativityBandSingingBlueCleanAlbumsProductionsFantasticFeaturesImpressed Author:Tony Trischka
“It was Miles Davis who took me to New York, and Coltrane was in the band, as well as Paul Chambers, Philly Jo Jones. 'Trane took me aside, and, of course, we did Blue Trane, which was my first album-and that started everything. He had confidence that I didn't have; he saw something that I didn't see.” FirstsWellsCoursesSawsNew YorkBandBlueAlbumsMilesChamberColtrane Author:Curtis Fuller
“Just a lot of those bands [like The Blue Jean Committee] started off in blues, and then they all transformed into other kinds.” KindBandBlueTransformedCommittees Author:Fred Armisen