Swing Quotes

The blues tells a story in itself. It can make you happy or give you a feeling to swing.

For some reason, the concept of writing with swing chords was intimidating.

Where I fall down is my short game. I don't practice enough, and when I have to take a half swing from 50 yards out, that's trouble.

Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues.

My dad's a scratch golfer and I've got the knack of seeing something and then replicating it. I saw my dad swing a club and I worked out how to do the same thing. My backswing and follow-through have been basically the same since I was two.

I think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains do become valleys after a while... if you keep on walking.

Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.

My whole career, my swing has always been the most important thing to me. Even when I'm taking a shower, I work on my swing.

At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.

I'll do a cappella stuff, rock 'n' roll and swing stuff.

The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.

PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction.

I know my swing is going to be there. I don't need 600 swings in the cage; I know where it's at.

No one who ever had lessons would have a swing like mine.

A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.

My point is, there's no sense trying to squeeze something out of your swing if you can let your clubs do the shotmaking for you.

And I hate to see artists who are real safe. I love to see artists swing for the fences sometimes.

I discovered in college that country music could be fun adding some swing to it.

How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball.

One day I think it's the greatest idea ever that I'm working on. The next day I think it's the worst that I've ever worked on - and I swing between that a lot. Some days I'm very happy with what I'm doing, and the next day I am desperate - it's not working out!

A working woman could save a few shillings a week, and then every five weeks she'd come in and we'd cut her hair. She could shampoo it under the shower, swing it and dry it off or just let it dry by itself. It changed the lives of many young girls who'd never had the opportunity to be styled like that before.

When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

I'm swimming every day and I'm even trying to get the golf swing working again - but that might take a little bit longer.

One of the pleasant duties of America's most famous announcers during the relatively short swing era of the big bands was to host late-night remotes from some of the most famous ballrooms throughout the country.

It's not just enough to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball have it.

New Mexico has been, in the past, a swing state.

I think that the pendulum will swing back to the other side one day.

While listening, to things like western swing, for instance, I'd work something out in my head, then play it on my National; not the same song, but one that captured the feeling of the original tune.

In the split second from the time the ball leaves the pitcher's hand until it reaches the plate you have to think about your stride, your hip action, your wrist action, determine how much, if any the ball is going to break and then decide whether to swing at it.

Most players I play with, I don't look at their swing when they're over the ball or anything like that.