#kansas city

Being born in Kansas City, Missouri and raised in the very rural parts of Kansas led me to believe that everything was simple, everything made sense and that anything was possible. ↗

— Chely Wright

#being #believe #born #city #everything

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

'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 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

My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent. ↗

— Pat Metheny

#amazing #around #brother #by the time #city

Where else but in America could a schoolteacher from Kansas City end up the governor of her adopted state? ↗

— Jane D. Hull

#america #city #could #else #end