Bix Beiderbecke Quotes
One thing I like about jazz, kid, is that I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?
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As a kid, I got teased about my unibrow. Now I love my brows.
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Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.
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I used to watch 'Top of the Pops' when I was a kid and say 'Yeah!' or 'Boo!' at every single song. So there was nothing in the middle. You brutally put it on one side or another.
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If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.
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Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.
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It's very different to have this kid that I'm truly responsible for.
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When I was a kid growing up, I used to watch 'DuckTales.'
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What is most amusing and can happen only in India is that the most posh and big households that I've seen in Mumbai, the 'big city', will have their balconies and windows festooned with rows of baniyans and tauliyas hanging on them.
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I don't feel like I'm grown up. I feel like I'm a kid.
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I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.
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I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid.
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There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.
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The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.
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If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.
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It's certainly no coincidence that big bands became the entertainment of the army in WWI and WWII, and that jazz drumming style is very military influenced. The snare drum comes from the military and becomes the core kind of sound of jazz drums.
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I always wanted to be a stand-up comedian, even as a kid. Me and my dad would watch 'Evening at the Improv' on A&E.
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Stanford's law school application wasn't the standard combination of college transcript, LSAT score, and essays. It required a personal sign-off from the dean of your college: You had to submit a form, completed by the dean, attesting that you weren't a loser.
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Sex divorced from love is the thief of personal dignity.
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I have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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One thing I like about jazz, kid, is that I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?
