Whitney Balliett quotes

“The brilliant explosion known as Benny Goodman went off in 1935, and it hasn´t gone out yet.”
-- Whitney Balliett

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“A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.”
-- Whitney Balliett

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“Critics are biased, and so are readers. (Indeed, a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.) But intelligent readers soon discover how to allow for the windage of their own and a critic's prejudices.”
-- Whitney Balliett

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“Toby: All right. It couldn't have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building...is our talent.”

“When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.”

“I'm obsessed with speed. I'm always asking myself, 'Why can't we do things faster? Why can't it happen more efficiently? Why is this requiring three meetings instead of one?'”

“What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material, ...”

Source : Alan Hollinghurst (2014). “The Line of Beauty: Picador Classic”, p.73, Pan Macmillan

“Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either so we might well wonder what we're doing here.”

“Most brilliant star upon the crest of Time Is England. England!”

“Wit is an unexpected explosion of thought.”

“I unabashedly, unashamedly, unequivocally support the explosion of entrepreneurs in the capitalist system.”

Source : "Is Jack Kemp Mr. Right?" By Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. June 28, 1987.

“If the thickness is larger than the critical value I can produce an explosion.”

“Explosions are not comfortable.”