Ben Webster famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I dont listen to my own records a lot. Once in a while - to check out my mistakes. Because you can always see a spot or two in the record where you could have done better. So you more or less study this way.
-- Ben Webster

#Mistake #Two #Done
Like every other place, I guess, Kansas City was quite a different city when I was a youngster there. They had quite a few clubs, and we had what we used to call jam sessions every night.
-- Ben Webster

#Night #Cities #Kansas City
I don't want to play out of another man's bag.
-- Ben Webster

#Men #Play #Bags
I like to play things that people understand, or maybe tunes that they could recognize. And so â€” I play for the people, just as much as for myself. Because, as I say, I still like to play.
-- Ben Webster

#Play #People #Tunes
If you try all different styles that are in vogue, I think you con yourself. Me, I just stick by my guns; I don't want to play out of another man's bag.
-- Ben Webster

#Men #Thinking #Gun
I used to live at the Cecil Hotel, which was next door to Minton's [Playhouse]. We used to jam just about every night when we were off. Lester [Young], Don Byas and myself - we would meet there all the time and like, exchange ideas. It wasn't a battle, or anything. We were all friends. Most of the guys around then knew where I lived. If someone came in Minton's and started to play - well, they'd give me a ring, or come up and call me down. Either I'd take my horn down, or I'd go down and listen. Those were good days. Had a lot of fun then.
-- Ben Webster

#Fun #Good Day #Night
I've been back in New York a year and a half now. Before that I was on the West Coast for five years. There's no comparison between the two. You hear things in New York you don't hear anywhere else. Unless these guys go out. Quite a few make it out to the Coast. Of course, you can't stay in New York for ever. You have to move.
-- Ben Webster

#New York #Moving #Years

This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on a scale which no previous age could have dreaded or dreamed of.
This is new for me. I'm learning how to have a realtionship with someone other than Ashton. I made a horrible mistake. It was like a relapse. But you," I reached up and tucked the tear dampened hair that had worked its way loose behind her ear. "You touch a place inside of me that Ashton never did. I feel things with you I never felt for her. I loved her for a very long time. I can't help the fact I still want to be there if she needs me. Next time there is a choice to make it will be you I choose first. I can promise you that.
People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
On occasions, after drinking a pint of beer at luncheon, there would be a flow into my mind with sudden and unaccountable emotion, sometimes a line or two of verse, sometimes a whole stanza, accompanied, not preceded by a vague notion of the poem which they were destined to form a part of.... I say bubble up because, so far as I could make out, the source of the suggestions thus proffered to the brain was the pit of the stomach.
I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer.
A busybody's work is never done.
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.
Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now.
I just want to do what has to be done so much. I'll never understand why everyone else doesn't feel this way.
The single most powerful element of youth is that you don't have the life experiences to know what can't be done.

Ben Webster famous quotes

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