Whitney Balliett famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The brilliant explosion known as Benny Goodman went off in 1935, and it hasn´t gone out yet.
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A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.
-- Whitney Balliett -
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.
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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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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?'
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What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material, ...
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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.
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Most brilliant star upon the crest of Time Is England. England!
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Wit is an unexpected explosion of thought.
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I unabashedly, unashamedly, unequivocally support the explosion of entrepreneurs in the capitalist system.
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If the thickness is larger than the critical value I can produce an explosion.
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Explosions are not comfortable.
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