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Tag Name "Goodman" (32)

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I could turn on my radio in the morning when I was getting dressed for school and hear Frank Sinatra and Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman and think this is the music. Now that music is art. Ellington is art. At that time it was just what you heard on the radio. Cole Porter was just a guy who wrote pretty songs and Billie Holliday would sing them.
Woody Allen
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These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light, when you heard the Benny Goodman quartets from a radio in the corner stationery store, and when almost everybody wore a hat.
John Cheever
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I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.
Alvin Lee
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The brilliant explosion known as Benny Goodman went off in 1935, and it hasn´t gone out yet.
Whitney Balliett
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After you’ve done all the work and prepared as much as you can, what the hell, you might as well go out and have a good time.
Benny Goodman
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The distance between me and Benny [Goodman], was that I was trying to play a musical thing, and Benny was trying to swing. Benny had great fingers I'd never deny that. But listen to our two versions of 'Star Dust.' I was playing he was swinging.
Artie Shaw
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Listening to Benny [Goodman] talk about the clarinet was like listening to a surgeon get hung up on a scalpel.
Artie Shaw
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I went to Bergdorf Goodman as an assistant in the fashion office and that was really my first exposure into the world of retail. Dawn Mello was president at the time and she had just left Gucci where she found Tom Ford.
Roopal Patel
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