Benny Green Quotes

Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention.

Benny Green

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: December 9, 1927 - June 22, 1998

Topics

LifeLoveIntegrityMusicRespect

'Heel Turn 2' is about a person who's in a match, and he's playing as though the match were real. But it is real! If you're standing in the middle of a ring, and you're playing the villain, and everyone is booing and throwing things at you, that's real.

John Darnielle

VillainYouPersonRingRealTurn

I was a kid who didn't have a lot of self-esteem.

Melanie Lynskey

KidSelf-EsteemWhoLot

Nobody's just arrogant. I've met people who are embattled and dismissive, but when you get to know them, you find that they're vulnerable - that that hauteur or standoffishiness is because they're pedaling furiously underneath.

Matthew Macfadyen

PeopleYouFindNobodyKnowGet

Critics don't sell records, unfortunately. No one reads what they write anyway.

Ry Cooder

WriteCriticsSellRecordsAnyway

We don't want bookstores to die. Authors need them, and so do neighborhoods.

Roy Blount, Jr.

DieWantNeedNeighborhoodsAuthors

My greatest reward is knowing for certain, as I do with many other acts and artistes, that without Jonathan King being alive and involved, Genesis would not exist, and the guys would have had careers as intended - as accountants and lawyers!

Jonathan King

KingLawyersRewardAliveKnowing

Our long-standing philosophy that our diverse suppliers must provide high-quality goods and services at competitive prices adds great value to our business.

Debra L. Reed

BusinessGreatValuePhilosophyMust

I never camped as a kid, but I really got into camping and sleeping outdoors. I've also done some amazing river floats in New Mexico and Idaho. It's peaceful and awesome.

Conor Oberst

RiverAmazingOutdoorsPeacefulNew

As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.

Clint Eastwood

DoubtYouAfraidOutTakeGet

When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for women and men.

Clara Zetkin

WomenMenBattlePrinciplesSuffrage

There are people you are madly in love with and thought you could never live without, and suddenly you break up and think, 'What was I thinking?'.

Boy George

LoveLivePeopleThinkThinkingYou

Greenwich Village always had its share of mind readers, but there are many more these days, and they seem to have moved closer to the mainstream of life in the city. What was crazy 10 years ago is now respectable, even among the best-educated New Yorkers.

Aravind Adiga

LifeCityMindCrazyNewVillage

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