"I started out playing big bands shows and different things. I was with several different small bands and groups, doing comedy and singing, emceeing, and I got a break with a very big star of the late fifties whose name was Tommy Sands."

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Source : Interview with Derrick Bostrom, derrickbostrom.net. October 6, 2006.

Hal Blaine

#Stars Quotes #Names Quotes #Singing Quotes

“I like working solo and it was a lot of fun joking around with the audience, saying things. I'm only just learning how to do certain things.”

Source : Song Talk Interview with Paul Zollo, www.artgarfunkel.com. 1990.
“I don’t want to talk about loving God. I want to actually love God.”
“Love will not just heal your life or mine. Love will heal the world.”
“The success I've achieved comes to me from God”
“Memories and loneliness look backward, fear looks around, but faith always looks forward.”
“As an actor, you want to keep your demons to some extent, but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you.”
“Philosophers, comedians, and tipsy birthday celebrants all have proposed theories about why time seems to move increasingly swiftly as we grow older. But the most disconcerting rationale is not a theory. It is the undeniable realization that every day we live constitutes a smaller percentage of the accrued experience with which we awaken each morning, and therefore seems proportionately a smidgen quicker and smaller than the day before.”
“For us in the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television.”

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