"I wish you wouldn't make the strings such an important part of your arrangements because frankly they're only a tax dodge!"

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Tommy Dorsey

#Important Quotes #Wish Quotes #Dodge Quotes

“I don't know what I could say specifically, except that everything I've learned as a kid of course must somehow play into what I do now. I think when everything kind of drifted away, I had to go out into the world and learn how to emotionally be okay with all that, which to me was a decades-long process. But also I happened to find my way in life, to find a living, to figure out what I wanted to be when I grow up. I think all of that now probably helps me. It probably gives me more life experience to draw from.”

Source : Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. March 4, 2009.
“And just everyone in the 40s, you got to realize, for his time period, take Justin Bieber and put it on ***** - there was no one like Frank Sinatra before that. And you didn't have the amount of outlets that you have today and the variety that you have today. So, the Great American Songbook united the nation unlike any other music, because there weren't so many different kinds of communications.”
“Life was so much simpler in pre-video days when everyone refused invitations because the 'Forsyte Saga' was on. Now we all just have a long list of unwatched shows, all of which, it seems, our friends are raving about. I feel as outdated as if I wore a Fair Isle sweater, ate Pot Noodle and had a two-bar electric fire in the sitting room.”
“To what part of electrical science are we not indebted to Faraday? He has increased our knowledge of the hidden and unknown to such an extent, that all subsequent writers are compelled so frequently to mention his name and quote his papers, that the very repetition becomes monotonous. [How] humiliating it may be to acknowledge so great a share of successful investigation to one man.”

Source : Alfred Smee (1843). “Elements of Electro-metallurgy”, p.128
“Improvise when obstacles present themselves. Happy accidents are magic! Have an open mind.”
“... the winner is the one who believes in victory more.”
“I don't think lyrics need to be deep - just write whatever comes out of you. You don't need to find intense meaning in everything.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.”

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