The Bandstand Is A Sacred Place.

I Have Friends Who Will Critique Me Much Harder Than Any Review.

Some Stances Are Just Conducive To Swinging. If I Stand Up Straight For Too Long It's Harder To Swing. Plus My Feet Hurt.

I Think That When The Education System Started To Be Dismantled During The First Great Depression In The 1930s, We Didn't Recover From That.

The Soul Gives Us Resilience - An Essential Quality Since We Constantly Have To Rebound From Hardship.

He [benny Carter] Is All That Every Jazz Musician The World Over Wants To Be. He's Performed 20,000 Nights. How Many Shoes Have Been Shined? How Much Mascara Put On? Rouge? How Many Of Those Impossible Bowties Have Been Tied? How Many Love Songs Have Been Sung? How Many Dances Have Been Danced? How Many Have Passed To The Sound Of His Music? It's Been Said That A Man Should Not Be Forced To Live Up To His Art. Benny Carter Is One Of The Rare Instances When We Wonder Whether The Great Art That A Man Has Created Can Live Up To Him.