"Too many young musicians today want to win……" — Benny Goodman
"Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments."
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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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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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If you want to do something, you do it anyway, and handle the obstacles as they come.
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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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More Instruments Quotes
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one of 1,542 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation…
— Hannah Arendt
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I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other…
— William Henry Ashley
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Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
— Francis of Assisi
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In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from…
— Charles Babbage
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It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right…
— Johann Sebastian Bach
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The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of…
— Lord Acton
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Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly…
— Ansel Adams
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I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello.
— Roger Bannister
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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
— John Adams
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The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind…
— John Adams
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My body is an instrument for me to use.
— Emmanuelle Beart
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