Stan Kenton famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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When you get to the top, don't forget to send the elevator down for the next guy.
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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.
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If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.
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My heart and soul are in the Stratocaster
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I’ve been the same guy since day one. No matter how successful I am in life, I’m going to stay true to myself and stay humble and grounded. I feel like that’s where your success comes from. Once you get that big head, it’s over. You feel like you can’t be stopped. Staying humble is the only way you can be great.
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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?
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But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
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Inside I knew he was meant to be the guy that taught me about life. Even if he broke my heart eventually.
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The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.
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He's smaller than me, did you see him? He looked like a noodle next to me.
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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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