"If you want to do something, you do……" — Benny Goodman
"If you want to do something, you do it anyway, and handle the obstacles as they come."
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15 Quotes by Benny Goodman
Benny Goodman has 15 quotes on this site.
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Creativity grows out of two things: curiosity & imagination.
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Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.
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After you’ve done all the work and prepared as much as you can, what the hell, you might as well go out…
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It takes the black keys and the white keys both, to make perfect harmony.
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One way or the other, if you want to find reasons why you shouldn’t keep on, you’ll find ‘em. The obstacles are…
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If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice.
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To this day, I don't like people walking on stage not looking good. You have to look good. If you…
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People have often said to me, 'You're so relaxed when you play.' Relaxed my elbow. It's practice.
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I don't have any great love for Chicago. What the hell, a childhood around Douglas Park isn't very memorable. I…
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I remember Glenn Miller coming to me once, before he had his own band, saying, How do you do it?…
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Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be…
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As soon as it was understood that we could handle things in our own way, it was the thrill of…
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To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of…
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In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, contracts, litigation, real…
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I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.
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I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace.
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Mr. Speaker, Delaware River's regional ports handle approximately 58 million tons of cargo yearly.
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We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of…
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Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it…
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Because sorry to say, women run the house. They run the family. They hold things up. I mean, it's like…
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God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress.
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If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's…
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There's a certain cruelty to being on a big screen as your eyelids start to sag and your hair falls…
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