Benny Carter Quotes
It Strayhorn's Compositions made us all think a little differently about what we were doing.
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You know, you don't expect everyone to be as educated as everyone else or have the same achievements, but you expect at least to be offered at least some of the opportunities, and libraries are the most simple and the most open way to give people access to books.
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Everyone teases me in the family that I spend far too long chatting. So I think I've still got to learn a little bit more and to pick up a few more tips, I suppose.
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One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It's an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.
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You know what black hatred women feel toward me as soon as they see me, until I return inside my shell, they use every possible weapon. As soon as a generous man tries to help me out, a woman is here to hold his arm and prevent him from acting.
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I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
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I don't allow meat in my house or in my oven. My whole family is vegetarian - and although I've given my kids the choice to order meat at a restaurant when they reach five, they're not interested.
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If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.
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What is your identity, and how do you know who you are if you don't have language?
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If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
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I have made that one of my policies never to play anything that I've already put on record.
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Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
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A number of people in the United States, almost everyone, is using plastic cards to pay for things, but it's extremely difficult to accept these cards. So let's make it's easy and take more and more of the friction out as we can.
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We Greeks are the blacks of Europe.
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I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.
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If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
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Nobody knows me, and I hope that it stays like this.
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Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the labour market of the '70s is utterly bizarre.
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I was a real loner in high school, even though people assume I was the head cheerleader.
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You know God gives me that inner strength that super strength to get through things.
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I love to smile.
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I definitely want my fans to know that I'm here to stay, and I'm going to continue to give them hot music.
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I haven't really done a lot of comedy. It's something that terrifies me.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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It Strayhorn's Compositions made us all think a little differently about what we were doing.
