These jam quotes will inspire you. Jam squeeze or pack tightly into a specified space or become or make unable to move or work due to a part seizing or becoming stuck.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging jam quotes, jam sayings, and jam proverbs.
Famous Jam Quotes
- “The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday – but never jam today.” ~ Lewis Carroll
- “It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.” ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
- “There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.” ~ Roger Staubach
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“We may take breaks and do other things, but we feel we’ll ultimately have Pearl Jam as a family.” ~ Stone Gossard
- “once it’s jam, it can’t be strawberries anymore.” ~ Marilyn Wallace
- “If you can’t slam with the best, then jam with the rest.” ~ Charles Barkley
- “I would love to go and live in the mountains… and make jam.” ~ Eve Best
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“Some of the jam we thought was for tomorrow, we’ve already eaten” ~ Tony Benn
- “That’s why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I’m always the last one to leave.” ~ Elvis Presley
- “Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.” ~ Trey Anastasio
- “That jam was so much fun that by the end of the tour, we just jammed on all of the songs.” ~ Charlie Byrd
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“The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.” ~ Alvin Toffler
- “I always felt as a horn player, a jam session wasn’t satisfying enough for me. I should have been a rhythm section player, actually.” ~ Lee Konitz
- “We would play, then they would play a set, then we would jam on the last song.” ~ Charlie Byrd”We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public to address it in such a back-door manner. We should be having a full, open discussion of the issue during an energy debate.” ~ Russ Feingold
- “I’m the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.” ~ Larry King
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“That’s why it’s called Sebastian Bach. I mean, it’s a permanent band, pretty much, but if I jam with other people, it just makes a better album, I think.” ~ Sebastian Bach
- “You can’t jam change down the American people’s throat.” ~ Dennis Hastert
- “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
- “I’m an afternoon tea type of girl. I come from a Russian background where we love our teas. So between lunch and dinner after training I come home and I love a nice cup of tea with jam in it, as we drink it there. Black English Breakfast with raspberry jam is my favorite.” ~ Maria Sharapova
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“I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.” ~ Jack Irons
- “Trevor realized that the odd thing about English is that no matter how much you screw sequences word up up, you understood, still, like Yoda, will be. Other languages don’t work that way. French? Dieu! Misplace a single le or la and an idea vaporizes into a sonic puff. English is flexible: you can jam it into a Cuisinart for an hour, remove it, and meaning will still emerge.” ~ Douglas Coupland
- “I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies.” ~ Dane Cook
- “It’s the faster bands that made me want to play guitar, bands like The Jam.” ~ Graham Coxon
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“I was lucky enough to first meet Elvis at his house in Bel Air and he used to invite different artists, singers and musicians, to come and jam with him at his house.” ~ Jackie DeShannon
- “Doing stand-up comedy is in the middle of a traffic jam getting everybody moving again.” ~ Jon Stewart
- “I used to be obsessed with Pearl Jam, but I love having pink hair and kind of looking like a Barbie.” ~ Ellie Goulding
- “The artist that had the biggest impact on me was Michael Jackson. He was my Elvis and Beatles. When I was 15, I listened to a lot of Sinatra, but my jean jacket didnt have, I love Frank on it, it had, I love AC/DC, Guns N Roses, Pearl Jam. I thought Eddie Vedder was the second coming.” ~ Michael Buble , Pearl jam quotes
- “Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment. This includes every mosquito, every misfortune, every red light, every traffic jam, every obnoxious supervisor (or employee), every illness, every loss, every moment of joy or depression, every addiction, every piece of garbage, every breath. Every moment is the guru.” ~ Joko Beck
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“Well, we have theatrical parties. It’s not me singing. People like to get up and jam on the piano.” ~ Liza Minnelli
- “I signed to Def Jam and within two months, I heard that Ja Rule was looking for someone to do a song with.” ~ Christina Milian
- “The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.” ~ Grace Abbott
- “In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along with many other Seattle musicians.” ~ Jack Irons
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“There’s probably a bunch of Power Stripe floating through the Def Jam offices right now.” ~ Method Man
- “It’s a very complex scenario, and certainly Dave was, and is, not the only person in Pearl Jam with personality flaws. Everybody in this band exhibits some form of neurotic behavior. And we couldn’t find a balance, a mutual respect for each other.” ~ Stone Gossard
- “See beauty in those unexpected places. (she asked herself how people could let Bach be background noise.) See the opportunity in what looks like inconvenience. (she steered clear of the traffic jam and went to the bakery she’s been meaning to stop at.) She embraces the undeclared possibility in what seems like just another ordinary day. (her friend is scheduled for cancer surgery and suddenly everything around her seems so very precious.)” ~ Mary Anne Radmacher , Traffic jam quotes
- “I was producing demos for a band that was called Physical Ed. Out of production of demos I went and did a few jam sessions with then in Northern California clubs, but I never actually toured with them.” ~ Ronnie Montrose
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“Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.” ~ Van Morrison
- “Well, ironically my last three roles have all been a mother. One was a Canadian film where the baby was taken away because she is a drug addict, in Irish Jam I play a mother to a four year old. I think in the future I’ll be able to handle the role with a lot more depth.” ~ Anna Friel
- “Not only did I get to play with these great international musicians, but I also had the opportunity to jam with the local celebrities in Toronto, people like the Walsh Brothers, David Wilcox, Kim Mitchell and the like. It was a great learning experience.” ~ Jeff Healey
- “Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam.” ~ Grace Abbott
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“My first jam was at Hotel Diplomat opening for Hollywood.” ~ Kurtis Blow
- “When the generation after me started getting on the cut, a lot of them would call me over to hang out or go jam and scratch and they were always separate from each other.” ~ Kid Koala
- “When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.” ~ Gary Cherone
- “Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I’m so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time.” ~ Tony Visconti
- “And if I’m honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like ’92, right in the throes of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and Nirvana. I think I probably wanted to be Kurt Cobain.” ~ St. Vincent
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“Louis Pasteur said, ‘Chance favors the prepared mind.’ If you’re really engaged in the writing, you’ll work yourself out of whatever jam you find yourself in.” ~ Michael Chabon
- “I also think stress is related to control. When you’re in charge of your life, you tend to not care about losing control of things that don’t really matter like traffic jams.” ~ Marilu Henner
- “With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it’s hard to get up the courage to say, Can I sing this part, or, I want to play guitar. I feel like I have more courage to do that.” ~ Jeff Ament
- “At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.” ~ Ivy Compton-Burnett
- “Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn’t like jam if it didn’t, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn’t like truth if it wasn’t sticky, if, from time to time, it didn’t ooze blood.” ~ Jean Baudrillard
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“Now, that’s enough.
[Lat., Ohe! jam satis est.]” ~ Horace
- “The jelly – the jam and the marmalade, And the cherry-and quince-‘preserves’ she made! And the sweet-sour pickles of peach and pear, With cinnamon in ’em, and all things rare! And the more we ate was the more to spare, Out to old Aunt Mary’s! Ah!” ~ James Whitcomb Riley
- “It is incumbent upon us all to raise the bar, whether you are a multibillion-dollar international corporation or a mom-and-pop selling blackberry jam.” ~ Howard Schmidt
- “I really have never been concerned about being beautiful on-screen. That’s just not my jam.” ~ Claire Danes
- “Check out the produce bin in your fridge or your cabinet before you buy more. When you see something on the verge of going bad, freeze it, turn it into a sauce, make jam.” ~ Dana Cowin
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“You can’t land on the moon and say, “Ooh, it’s all sticky! It’s covered in jam!” ~ Eddie Izzard
- “Let’s put the jam on the lower shelf so the little people can reach it” ~ Ralph Yarborough
- “Cheese and jam are really nice. Cheese and apple as well. Cheese and grapes are good.” ~ Georgie Henley
- “Someone who eats pancakes and jam can’t be so awfully dangerous. You can talk to him.” ~ Tove Jansson
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“I’ll use the knives for spreading jam, and the gas to warm my greying love.” ~ Charles Bukowski
- “For those dependent on their gardens for fresh food, it was often a case of feast or famine… (One settler wrote), “Strawberries were now so plentiful that… I made 287 lbs of jam…”” ~ Bee Dawson
- “Mother Very Easily Made Jam Sandwiches Under No Protest” ~ Diana Wynne Jones
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“It’s jam every other day: today isn’t any other day, you know.” ~ Lewis Carroll
- “My family is full of musicians, and a couple of times a year we get together and jam at my cousin’s studio. We improvise and have a great time.” ~ Gabriel Macht
- “When you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making red trails like the picture of a meteor in my astronomical atlas. But if you stir backwards, the jam will not come together again. Indeed, the pudding does not notice and continues to turn pink just as before. Do you think this is odd?” ~ Tom Stoppard
