Quotes by Benny Goodman - Page 1

You have to look good.
Benny Goodman / Musician
Jazz
Looks
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Some of the overflow audience actually sat on the stage.
Benny Goodman / Musician
Overflow
Sat
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Creativity grows out of two things: curiosity & imagination.
Benny Goodman / Musician
Art
Creativity
Two
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If I have something I want to do, I make a business of doing it.
Benny Goodman / Musician
Dedication
Ifs
Want
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If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice.
Benny Goodman / Musician
Music
African American
Giving
Guy
Prejudice
Selling
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It takes the black keys and the white keys both, to make perfect harmony.
Benny Goodman / Musician
Keys
Perfect
White
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If you want to do something, you do it anyway, and handle the obstacles as they come.
Benny Goodman / Musician
Handle
Obstacles
Want
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Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.
Benny Goodman / Musician
Instruments
Musician
Polls
Want
Winning
Musicians
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People have often said to me, 'You're so relaxed when you play.' Relaxed my elbow. It's practice.
Benny Goodman / Musician
People
Play
Practice
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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 and have a good time.
Benny Goodman / Musician
Hell
Prepared
Work Time Good
Good Time
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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 and have a good time.
Benny Goodman / Musician
Done
Good Times
Might
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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 polite, you start to lose substance.
Benny Goodman / Musician
Details
Failing
Losing
Polite
Substance
Detail
Lose
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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 all there; there are a million of 'em.
Benny Goodman / Musician
Obstacles
Million
Reasons
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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 all there; there are a million of ‘em.
Benny Goodman / Musician
Ems
Want
Way
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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 just what would be expected of us.
Benny Goodman / Musician
Carnegie Hall
Dubious
Not Knowing
Experience Great Me
Great Experience
Hall
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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 feel special about yourself then you're going to play special.
Benny Goodman / Musician
Good Day
Looking Good
People
Play
Special
Stage
Walking
Looking
Good Look Yourself
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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 on that stage with people just hemming the band in.
Benny Goodman / Musician
Band
Handle
People
Thrill
Understood
Life Walk My Life
Soon
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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? It's so difficult. I told him, I don't know but whatever you do don't stop. Just keep on going.
Benny Goodman / Musician
Band
Difficult
Remember
Glenn
Miller
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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 remember the street fights and how you were afraid to cross the bridge 'cause the Irish kid on the other side would beat your head in. I left Chicago a long time ago.
Benny Goodman / Musician
Kids
Fighting
Memorable
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Some of the guys I played with .. didn't go around learning more about their instruments from an intellectual point of view. All they wanted was to play hot jazz, and the instrument was just a means. I'd imagine that a lot of them criticized me-said my technique was too good. Something like that. But I've always wanted to know what made music. How you do it, and why it sounds good. I always practiced, worked like hell.
Benny Goodman / Musician
Learning
Mean
Views
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I think I've done a lot in this business, whether through screwball methods or not I don't know, that has helped other bands. I made a kind of road for them, you might say. If I raised my price, they found out about it and raised theirs. But somebody had to start it, to make the first move. You have to have the courage and confidence in your own ability. You have to know what the hell and who the hell you are in this business. Music may change, but I don't think that ever will.
Benny Goodman / Musician
May
Moving
Thinking
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When I first arrived (in New York), it seemed to me the most terrifying city in the world... all those big buildings. I remember walking on Broadway, looking up at this huge, mountainous place-and being so lonely. But things started to clear up when I met a few people on the street whom I'd met before-all of a sudden there got to be a certain familiarity about the place, and the terror kind of evaporated. There was a lot of playing going on, and the New Yorkers, of course, were a completely different crowd from what I'd known.
Benny Goodman / Musician
New York
Cities
Lonely
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I think my first impression (of Bix Beiderbecke) was the lasting one. I remember very clearly thinking, 'Where, what planet, did this guy come from? Is he from outer space?' I'd never heard anything like the way he played-not in Chicago, no place. The tone-he had this wonderful, ringing cornet tone. He could have played in a symphony orchestra with that tone. But also the intervals he played, the figures-whatever the hell he did. There was a refinement about his playing. You know, in those days I played a little trumpet, and I could play all the solos from his records, by heart.
Benny Goodman / Musician
Heart
Play
Thinking
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