Benny Carter Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“It (Strayhorn's Compositions) made us all think a little differently about what we were doing”
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“At my age, I realize that my most precious possession is time, and I've got too much unfinished work to do to spend even a minute talking about myself.”
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“In all honesty, I think I just played what I felt was right for me. And I think I would have done the same thing, even if I'd been born later, when Charlie Parker was influencing everybody. The truth is, I never gave it much thought. I just played what I had to play.”
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“I didn't know Charlie Parker well, but I spent some time with him, and he was articulate and well-spoken with a lot of curiosity about music and the world. But the only way he seems to be depicted is as a junkie. And that's not the full picture.”
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“Get up from the piano ... Oscar is in the house. Who wants to be at the piano when Oscar is there? Find something else to do.”
-- Benny Carter
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Source : Song: Almost Lover, Album: One Cell in the Sea, 2007
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Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK
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Source : A. A. Milne (2013). “The Red House Mystery and Other Novels”, p.1247, eBookIt.com
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“The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.”
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“It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself”
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“He wasn't what sent me running. He was what had made me want to stay.”
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