Ben Webster Quotes

• I like to play things that people understand, or maybe tunes that they could recognize. And so — I play for the people, just as much as for myself. Because, as I say, I still like to play.

  Ben Webster

  Play, People, Tunes

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• If you try all different styles that are in vogue, I think you con yourself. Me, I just stick by my guns; I don't want to play out of another man's bag.

  Ben Webster

  Men, Thinking, Gun

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• I don't want to play out of another man's bag.

  Ben Webster

  Men, Play, Bags

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• Como cualquier otro lugar, supongo, Kansas City era una ciudad bastante diferente cuando yo era joven allí. Tenían bastantes clubes, y teníamos lo que solíamos llamar jam sessions todas las noches.

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  Night, Cities, Kansas City

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• I used to live at the Cecil Hotel, which was next door to Minton's [Playhouse]. We used to jam just about every night when we were off. Lester [Young], Don Byas and myself - we would meet there all the time and like, exchange ideas. It wasn't a battle, or anything. We were all friends. Most of the guys around then knew where I lived. If someone came in Minton's and started to play - well, they'd give me a ring, or come up and call me down. Either I'd take my horn down, or I'd go down and listen. Those were good days. Had a lot of fun then.

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  Fun, Good Day, Night

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• I dont listen to my own records a lot. Once in a while - to check out my mistakes. Because you can always see a spot or two in the record where you could have done better. So you more or less study this way.

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  Mistake, Two, Done

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• Tuve la oportunidad de tocar con Benny 'The King' Carter aquí en Copenhague durante tres días en el Montmartre, y dos días en París. Qué emoción. Sabe tanta música, y es la única persona con la que me tiembla el pulso al intentar tocar la trompa detrás de él o con él (sonrisa). Sin embargo, fue un baile.

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  Kings, Play, Two

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• I've been back in New York a year and a half now. Before that I was on the West Coast for five years. There's no comparison between the two. You hear things in New York you don't hear anywhere else. Unless these guys go out. Quite a few make it out to the Coast. Of course, you can't stay in New York for ever. You have to move.

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  New York, Moving, Years

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