#kansas city

The first professional training I received of any kind was when I was 14 years old and we were in Kansas City, Missouri. I attended the Kansas City Art Institute for one summer. ↗

— Marc Davis

#art #attended #city #first #i

It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#city #kansas #kansas city #necessary #order

It was my first time in Kansas City. In about two or three days I had a gig at a place called The Monroe Inn. ↗

— Jay McShann

#called #city #days #first #first time

If you're playing for the Kansas City Royals about all you can do is beat your head against the wall. ↗

— John Kruk

#against #beat #city #head #kansas

'Hound Dog' took like twelve minutes. That's not a complicated piece of work. But the rhyme scheme was difficult. Also the metric structure of the music was not easy. 'Kansas City' was maybe eight minutes, if that. Writing the early blues was spontaneous. You can hear the energy in the work. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#blues #city #complicated #difficult #dog

I guess it kind of stemmed from my father. He was a union guy working for the meat plant down in Kansas City. He was a union guy, and I guess it was just in my blood. ↗

— David Cone

#city #down #father #guess #guy

I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young. ↗

— Pat Metheny

#best #city #i #kansas #kansas city

There are people walking around the streets of Kansas City who are unemployed, while one of our largest employers is not only sending jobs aboard, but then turning around and making a statement about preserving jobs. ↗

— Emanuel Cleaver

#about #around #city #employers #jobs

You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper. ↗

— Mort Walker

#city #comic #comic strip #experimenting #had

Like every other place, I guess, Kansas City was quite a different city when I was a youngster there. They had quite a few clubs, and we had what we used to call jam sessions every night. ↗

— Ben Webster

#city #clubs #different #every #every night