Benjamin David Goodman (Benny Goodman) Quotes

Some of the overflow audience actually sat on the stage.

Benjamin David Goodman

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• Guys like Clyde McPhatter used to sing their tail ends off!

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Like
  • Sing
  • Tail

• As a college student, you're depending on your scholarship money, money your parents send you. So I guess when people start talking about big figures, it doesn't hit me.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • People
  • Money
  • Parents

• It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren't formulaic in the spirit of filmmakers gone by who've told American stories that were personal and universal as well.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Real
  • American
  • Group

• Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.

  

  Harriet Martineau
  • Modesty
  • Fidelity

• I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Wish
  • Best
  • Organization

• Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Hard
  • Nothing
  • Awake

• I feel like a survivor from an age that people no longer understand. I want to try to explain what the 1930s - the golden age of Hollywood - was truly like. People forget that America was such a different place then, not yet the dominant force in the world.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Happy
  • Play
  • Blues

• I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Christian
  • Deep
  • Charity

• I don't really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but I'd like to be doing lots of other things. I like to cure all kinds of illness.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Music
  • Live
  • Myself

• In the Bible, God offered the Pharaoh freedom if he would just let the oppressed people free to go to the land of milk and honey. But the Pharaoh disobeyed, and he was destroyed.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • God
  • Free

• I love watching other beauty girls on YouTube, so I get a lot of ideas through their videos. I also get plenty of requests from viewers, which is great. I can never run out of ideas!

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Great
  • Ideas
  • Beauty

• Well I sure had been looking for a comedy for years without any success.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Success
  • Comedy
  • Looking

• I always compare human beings to animals. It's a nice way to figure out who they are.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Nice
  • Human
  • Animals

• There was nothing so antipodal to his nature as this man's cold, unimaginative sagacity, by contact with which everything was converted into a dream except the densest matter of the physical world.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • World
  • Nature
  • Dream

• Low inflation and government prudence may be harmful for economic development.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • May

• How many persons must there be who cannot worship alone since they are content with so little.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Alone

• In the street the rain was little more than a fine mist which softened the outlines of the houses and even lent a touch of poetry to a neighbourhood unlikely to evoke tender emotions. He raised his eyes to a roofline bristling with television aerials, lowered them again to windows still blank before the evening lights were lit.

  Anita Brookner
  • Eyes
  • Poetry
  • Rain

• Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won't come in. If you challenge your own, you won't be so quick to accept the unchallenged assumptions of others. You'll be a lot less likely to be caught up in bias or prejudice or be influenced by people who ask you to hand over your brains, your soul or your money because they have everything all figured out for you.

  

  Alan Alda
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I'll leave a store if I hate the music. If it's just, like, techno, I feel like my brain is going to explode.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • Music
  • Hate
  • Brain

• When you work with a band, obviously you've got to present them with something they can get a hold of, so it has to be a little more fleshed out as a song. And then where it goes is more collaborative, obviously; it's more political possibly, certainly more a conscious process than a subconscious process, which the painting can be.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Work
  • Song
  • Political

• I’d like to end up sort of… unforgettable.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • Sort
  • Unforgettable
  • End Up

• But love, whether in Multan or on Siberia's icy tundra, whether in the winter or the summer, whether among the rich or the poor, whether among the beautiful or the ugly, whether among the crude or refined, love is always just love. There's no difference.

  

  Saadat Hasan Manto
  • Beautiful
  • Summer
  • Ugly

• Some of the overflow audience actually sat on the stage.

  

  Benjamin David Goodman