Stan Kenton quotes

Stan Kenton quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“When you get to the top, don't forget to send the elevator down for the next guy.”
-- Stan Kenton

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“Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.”
-- Stan Kenton

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“Whenever you play dance music, it serves a function. It becomes a utility; you have to worry about the tempos and what you're going to play for people. But when you're playing for listening, you're free.”
-- Stan Kenton

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“It's fun to be creative and innovative and come up with something crazy. So I need people to work with who are not going to be afraid to take it to the left a bit.”
“If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.”
“My heart and soul are in the Stratocaster”
“Iâ€™ve been the same guy since day one. No matter how successful I am in life, Iâ€™m going to stay true to myself and stay humble and grounded. I feel like thatâ€™s where your success comes from. Once you get that big head, itâ€™s over. You feel like you canâ€™t be stopped. Staying humble is the only way you can be great.”
“Love is a sensation caused by temptation when a guy sticks his location into a girl's destination to increase the population for the next generation. Do you understand my explanation or do you need a demonstration?”
“But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.”
“Inside I knew he was meant to be the guy that taught me about life. Even if he broke my heart eventually.”

Source : Abbi Glines (2014). “The Rosemary Beach Collection: Rush and Blaire: Fallen Too Far, Never Too Far, and Forever Too Far”, p.112, Simon and Schuster
“The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.”

Source : Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. February 2, 2009.
“He's smaller than me, did you see him? He looked like a noodle next to me.”
“Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.”

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