A Commonplace Book

Category: bands...

  • dancing to the big band sound
  • forming a band and playing club dates on weekends
  • tipping the band at the concert in the park and making a donation to the local high school band
  • the Army band striking up Stars and Stripes Forever
  • a band that sends the crowd home with smiles on their faces
  • playing music that you love, the whole idea behind a band
  • seeing your favorite band play in a small club
  • remembering the words to songs from favorite bands of your youth
  • The girl who can't dance says the band can't play. (Yiddish proverb)
  • The band waked me with a serenade. How they improve! A fine band and what a life in a regiment! Their music is better than food and clothing to give spirit to the men. (R.B. Hayes)
  • Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk. (R. Benchley)

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