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Benny Quotes

Benny McClenahan arrived always with four girls. They were never quite the same ones in physical person but they were so identical one with another that it inevitably seemed they had been there before. I have forgotten their names? Jaqueline, I think, or else Consuela or Gloria or Judy or June, and their last names were either the melodious names of flowers and months or the sterner ones of the great American capitalists whose cousins, if pressed, they would confess themselves to be. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lee Konitz quote: "Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet..."
Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet. Lee Konitz
I love Benny Hill. He one of my favourites of aaall time. Like, the way Benny did it, he was just amazing. Just seeing how he put songs together and comedy and the timing and the sketches. He was way ahead of his time. Snoop Dogg
Jack Kerouac quote: "stick at it like a benni addict"
stick at it like a benni addict Jack Kerouac
Hell man, I know very well you didn't come to me only to want to become a writer, and after all what do I really know about it except that you've got to stick to it with the energy of a benny addict. Jack Kerouac
It takes the black keys and the white keys both, to make perfect harmony? - Benny Goodman, The King of Swingreply to when he was asked as to why he had an integrated band Benny Goodman
In Ecuador the Indian mate was too poor to buy Polaroid glasses but he saw the caudal fins of marlin long before my perfect eyes noticed anything. Benny played pool as if the cue stick emerged from his body. Not my alcohol & geometry. She was an asshole and I couldn't have loved her at gunpoint. Jim Harrison
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
Benny Green quote: "No, that's not it. The first time we met was at Fat Tuesday's...."
No, that's not it. The first time we met was at Fat Tuesday's. Benny was playing, this was, I think in 1989? Benny Green
Bob Hope quote: "When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's..."
When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in. Bob Hope
Dwayne Hickman quote: "I have often been told that I have many of the same mannerisms..."
I have often been told that I have many of the same mannerisms as Jack Benny and certainly Bob Cummings. Dwayne Hickman
I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I never seriously considered it as a career choice. Phil Hartman
Lionel Hampton quote: "Working with Benny was important for me and for black..."
Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general. Lionel Hampton
Joan Collins quote: "I consider you as old as you look and feel. And in that case I..."
I consider you as old as you look and feel. And in that case I feel - I feel I'm about 39, like Jack Benny. Joan Collins
It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter. Abbey Lincoln

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