Marching Bands Quotes

I'm not a huge parade guy myself.

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

I like parades.

Football teams represent cities and colleges and schools. The people have built great stadiums, and the game is culturally intertwined with our calendar. We don't go back to college for the college. We go back for a football game, and, yes, we even call that 'homecoming.'

People are just so passionate about football in the South. Great rivalries through the years. Unbelievable rivalries. It's healthy.

New Orleans had a great tradition of celebration. Opera, military marching bands, folk music, the blues, different types of church music, ragtime, echoes of traditional African drumming, and all of the dance styles that went with this music could be heard and seen throughout the city. When all of these kinds of music blended into one, jazz was born.

There's a lot of enthusiasm and a lot of great fans everywhere you go in college football.

As you'll never hear the thing again, my boy, why not throw in a couple of brass bands?

I always had great respect for the SEC with all the great players.

I got to do the Rose Bowl Parade - which is the largest parade in America - with a float. That was a fun opportunity.

Any time you factor in the enthusiasm that comes with college sports, it comes with a whole new level. It is less corporate, it's more of an unharnessed kidlike enthusiasm.

An unprecedented number of uniformed males, marching, parading and engaging in mock battles in every region of Great Britain brought a pleasant frisson of excitement into many normally quiet and deeply repetitive female lives.