Tommy Dorsey quotes

Tommy Dorsey quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I wish you wouldn't make the strings such an important part of your arrangements because frankly they're only a tax dodge!”
-- Tommy Dorsey

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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“Bebop has set music back twenty years.”
-- Tommy Dorsey

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“Your career, interests and relationships are important, but they are only important insofar as they lead you toward a deeper understanding of yourself. Otherwise, they are irrelevant.”

Source : A. H. Almaas (2000). “Diamond Heart: Book One: Elements of the Real in Man”, p.7, Shambhala Publications
“Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.”
“I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.”
“I think it's really important to live in the moment.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.
“You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.”
“Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.”
“As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.”
“I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never espouse their quarrels on either side. My sincere wish is that both sides will allow bygones to be bygones, and look to the present & future only.”
“Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Ive managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me - music is all about civilization, about something worthwhile. Its all about ideas.”

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