"The brilliant explosion known as Benny Goodman went off in 1935, and it hasnÂ´t gone out yet."

-- Whitney Balliett

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“All kinds of music comes out that I'm not prepared for. Some of it is good, some of it rubbish, but I kind of accept it all. That's the nature of stream-of-consciousness. You can't always come up with your most lucid material in the heat of the moment. I take that risk when I play live. I open up my mind, however fertile a creative springboard it is that evening.”
“I ran to the forest, I ran to the trees. I ran and I ran, I was looking for me.”
“My secretary stopped and got gas (Wednesday) for $2.67. (Yesterday at) the same gas station, she got gas again. It was $3.12, ... It has really gotten very, very restrictive to people. It's really hurting. ... My impression, of course, is that they have certainly gone up more than they should have.”
“Largely I write from life. ... I write from what happens to me. Mostly about love. People notice the other stuff more but I write mostly about love.”
“Women have hunger two-fold, shyness four-fold, daring six-fold, and lust eight-fold as compared to men.”
“There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.”

Source : KGNU benefit at the University of Colorado at Boulder, April 05, 2003.
“As an actor or anybody as a human being, I feel more and more like I want to spend time doing something significant. Because what's the alternative? Spend your life wasting your time.”
“If you swing both ways, you really swing. I just figure you double your pleasure.”

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