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Buddy DeFranco Quotes

Charlie Parker and Art Tatum to me were genius, and I'm right below that. I did, in my own way, do something different on the instrument, and that's the way I'd like to be remembered.

Buddy DeFranco

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: February 17, 1923 - December 24, 2014

Topics

Art Me Genius Way My Own Right

Most people, when they think of an insult, they keep it to themselves. But you wouldn't believe the things people say on my Twitter feed, and I'm a nice guy. Imagine if I was a jerk.

Jeff Ross

People Believe Think You Nice Say

Describing something as the 'Woodstock of...' has taken to mean a one-of-a-kind historic gathering.

Steve Blank

Gathering Mean Woodstock Something

I had a passion to not be a secretary forever. I was mindful of the customary career trajectory, and I knew I had to do something remarkable.

Stacey Snider

Passion Career Forever Something Had

One of the perks of being a psychologist is access to tools that allow you to carry out the injunction to know thyself.

Steven Pinker

Tools You Know Out Carry Being

I gravitate to ensemble comedy.

Steve Zahn

Comedy Ensemble Gravitate

I'm massively inspired by Janet Jackson, and I adore Whitney Houston and Madonna.

Shura

Houston Inspired Adore Madonna

We're always trying to say things are right or wrong, bad or good. If we just chilled out, maybe things wouldn't be so hard.

Lucy Davis

Good Trying Bad Wrong Say Right

I think it's very important to support those who can't help themselves - children, animals - and especially to do so in your own neighborhood.

Lori Foster

Children Support Think Help Animals

I don't think of myself as offbeat and weird. As a kid, I saw myself as the type of guy who would run into a burning building to save the baby.

Christian Slater

Myself Baby Building Think Weird

If 'The New York Times' says it, it must be true.

Bob Newhart

New York Be True New True Must Says

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Spencer

Life Alone Simple People Breakfast

I was the most powerful left-handed hitter in the Alameda area.

Willie Stargell

Powerful Hitter Left-Handed Most