William Bell Quotes

I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I.

Someday, I hope to do a jazz club tour.

My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's.

Well, I had an after hours club in Vancouver and when any of the Motown acts would call.

I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.

I grew up in Pittsburgh, and regularly, my parents would take us to the Holiday House Supper Club to see acts like Nancy Wilson, Sarah Vaughn, Ben Vereen, Freda Payne, Stephanie Mills, and The Temptations, to name a few.

I used to run a night club in Fort Myers, Florida called Norma Jean's Dance Club. That was the hottest spot from Sarasota to Cuba.

We worked over at that place The Plantation Inn with The Del Rios. It was really wild over there.

I had the house rhythm section at a club called the Sundown in Hartford. Stan Getz came up and played with us.

A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington.

I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.

When I heard Monk in person in 1955, he was playing with a quartet in a small club. The place was full of musicians, but there was no public at all.

Whenever Elvin Jones comes to Seattle I try to go catch him.

Saturday night is your big night. Everybody used to fry up fish and have one hell of a time. Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich. And be glad of it. And they really liked the low-down blues.

I used to work over a bar. That was - there was no stage. I stood over a tiny bar. Louis Prima, rest his soul, he worked there. I was the guy that filled in when he was off the stage.

I still go out, but not a lot. If I go to see music, it's usually to the Blue Note, jazz clubs, things like that. When I travel, I find out where the jazz clubs are.

I learned everything from my friends and just constant gigging in night clubs, eight sets a night!

Fewer and fewer bars are doing live music. Instead it's more DJs and dance parties.

One of my first bartending gigs was on Santa Monica Boulevard at Doug Weston's Troubadour, a very famous live music venue.

I had my schooling right there in the Cotton Club.

I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.

I saw B.B. King in concert one time where he had this guy that would bring him out a glass of water and towel to wipe his forehead with.

Every weekend I go to the guitar bar in Hoboken and do a jam session.

Jazz onstage is a very intimate exchange between everybody that's onstage.

I'd love to see Kate Bush, full stop.