Benny Goodman Quotes

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• Creativity grows out of two things: curiosity & imagination.
• Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.
• After you’ve done all the work and prepared as much as you can, what the hell, you might as well go out and have a…
• It takes the black keys and the white keys both, to make perfect harmony.
• One way or the other, if you want to find reasons why you shouldn’t keep on, you’ll find ‘em. The obstacles are all there; there…
• If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice.
• To this day, I don't like people walking on stage not looking good. You have to look good. If you feel special about yourself then…
• People have often said to me, 'You're so relaxed when you play.' Relaxed my elbow. It's practice.
• If you want to do something, you do it anyway, and handle the obstacles as they come.
• I don't have any great love for Chicago. What the hell, a childhood around Douglas Park isn't very memorable. I remember the street fights and…
• I remember Glenn Miller coming to me once, before he had his own band, saying, How do you do it? How do you get started?…
• Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose…
• As soon as it was understood that we could handle things in our own way, it was the thrill of my life to walk out…
• That night at Carnegie Hall was a great experience. When the thing was first put up to me I was a little dubious, not knowing…
• Some of the overflow audience actually sat on the stage.

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