Omer Simeon quotes

“I always called him the Dizzy Dean of music, he was so belligerent and braggadocio... But one thing I always noticed about Jelly, he would back everything he said by what he could do.”
-- Omer Simeon

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“Well, I like to think that my illness has prevented me from rising to any number of dizzy heights.”

Source : "Monckton saves the day!". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. May 6, 2007.

“They were tower stairs, a tight corkscrew down. The spiraling descent made Karou dizzy: down, around, down, around, hypnotic, until it seemed as if she were caught in a purgatory of stairs and would go down like this forever.”

“You can spread jelly on the peanut butter but you can't spread peanut butter on the jelly.”

Source : Dick Van Dyke (2016). “My Lucky Life in and Out of Show Business - Dick Van Dyke”, p.10, John Blake Publishing Ltd

“Work without fun is like peanut butter without jelly.”

“For the life of her, she couldn't understand how such an obstinate, boneheaded chauvinist could make her pulse race and her insides turn to jelly.”

“Jazz is the music of the body.”

“Player for player, there’s 
no better working band in jazz than The Cookers.”

“I was totally into jazz in my teens.”

“I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.”

“My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex.”