Author: Benny Goodman

Quotes

To this day, I don't like people walking on stage not looking good. You have to look good. If you feel special about yourself then you're going to play special.

To this day, I don't like people walking on stage not looking good. You have to look good. If you feel special about yourself then you're going to play special.

- Benny Goodman

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.

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

Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.

Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.

- Benny Goodman

If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice.

If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice.

- Benny Goodman

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.

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

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