"People who love jazz musicians love us when we play what we want to play and we're starving. But as soon as you commercialize your sound like Wes Montgomery did, the jazz fans and the critics are down on you!"

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George Benson

#Music Quotes #Play Quotes #People Quotes

“Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.”

Source : Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 30, 2012.
“I'm a happy person, and I want everybody else to be happy. Nothing wrong with that.”
“The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth.”
“We cannot all see alike, but we can all do good.”
“LL Cool J should be the spokesman for a line of pajamas called Ladies Love Cool Jammies.”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 15, 2010
“Maybe not," she said as we came to the car. "But maybe that isn't so bad. You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends. The first boy is always the hardest to get over, Haven. It's just the way the world works.”
“If our team is playing well and winning, it doesn't really matter to me if I am scoring points or not. For me though the more I can help offensively the better our chances are to win, so I just push myself to get better and hope it continues for the rest of the year.”
“I prepared for the part by drinking, but I was sober when I was performing”

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