"As soon as it was understood that we could handle things in our own way, it was the thrill of my life to walk out on that stage with people just hemming the band in."

-- Benny Goodman

#People Quotes #Band Quotes #Thrill Quotes

“My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.”

Source : Olive Schreiner (1988). “Olive Schreiner Letters: 1871-1899”, Oxford University Press, USA
“I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.”
“The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury.”
“If you became a comedian in the '80s, you had to work the circuit and make people laugh. Canned laughter is cheating.”
“I can't even imagine what it's like to run for 5 or 6 hours.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I really see the U.S. staggering under the burden of three blows. One is 9/11 and the threat of terrorism, which is still huge in Syria, Iraq, and elsewhere. The second is the failed 2003 war in Iraq, which cost so much and ruined America's credibility in the eyes of so many. Obama has repaired it to some extent, but those scars are deep. And then, thirdly, banks failed, the whole real estate market had the carpet pulled out from under it.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“It all comes down to what you truly love doing, and what I love doing is overdubbing and making new sounds out of things that are sometimes quite ordinary on their own, but when you put them together, they make something new--or something that sounds new. Just discovering things like that musically is a pleasure.”
“I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.”

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