"Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago."

-- Billy Eckstine

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“I want to entertain people, whether it be with a comedy, a drama or a movie. An idea's an idea.”
“It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psychiatrist without at the same time bearing the stamp of the most incontestable madness: that of being unable to resist that old atavistic reflex of the mass of humanity, which makes any man of science who is absorbed by this mass a kind of natural and inborn enemy of all genius.”
“I never want to produce anything that a family could not enjoy together. I never want to create art that would embarrass my own children later.”
“I love my body. And, I'm always working out. I'm an exercise freak, be it cardio, weights, t'ai chi or yoga.”
“Liar, lawyer, mirror show me. Whatâ€™s the difference?”
“Dor woke again as dawn came. The sun had somehow gotten around to the east, where the land was, and dried off so that it could shine again.”

Source : Piers Anthony (2002). “Centaur Aisle”, p.73, Del Rey
“One night Roger was in a foul mood and he threw his entire bloody drumset across the stage. The thing only just missed me - I might have been killed.”
“Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making.”

Source : Richard Florida (2014). “The Rise of the Creative Class--Revisited: Revised and Expanded”, p.8, Basic Books

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