Goodman Quotes

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Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet.

The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him.

My idols are Richard Dreyfuss, Michael Keaton, John Goodman. Maybe that's what I want for me.

Listening to Benny [Goodman] talk about the clarinet was like listening to a surgeon get hung up on a scalpel.

Some people are immune to good advice.

John Goodman is more that just a big guy, he's a wonderful actor.

I started getting orders from some of the leading stores Fred Segal, Bergdorf Goodman. I realized then that my bags were being noticed by the fashion world.

It’s fun to watch someone like John Goodman, and yet it takes work. People say ‘he’s not acting, he’s being himself.’ Well it’s hard to be yourself, it’s the hardest job there is.

I was once asked to do my Tarzan yell at Bergdorf Goodman, and a guard burst in with a gun! Now I only do it under controlled circumstances.

John Goodman isn't fat. He's in a category beyond fat. What does one call it? Whalelike.

Benny Goodman plays the clarinet. I play music.

I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.

I went to the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago.

Paul Goodman was not ahead of his time but IN his time.

Benny [Goodman] used to practice 15 times more than the whole band combined.

I think my life dramatically shifted when I met Lucas [Goodman] and it wasn't even planned. I had a very clear vision of what I was going to do.

When I started at [Nina] Ricci, I did street wear for very cool, young girls but the price point was for the fourth floor of Bergdorf Goodman next to Carolina Herrera. My cool girls cannot afford it.

[Goodman] became famous (or notorious) for staring at a player he didn't like. It was called 'the ray' by his men.

John Goodman's pretty dark - I love John Goodman.

I was in love with Tina Goodman since I was three and her parents came popping out of the trash cans. I think it made a big impression on me.

The brilliant explosion known as Benny Goodman went off in 1935, and it hasn´t gone out yet.

I am now of all humors that have showed themselves humors since the old days of goodman Adam to the pupil age of this present twelve o'clock at midnight.

Since the advent of Benny Goodman, there have been too few clarinetists to fill the void that Goodman left. Ken Peplowski is most certainly one of those few. The man is magic.

Obviously you can't please everyone. I'm sure some people say, 'Bloody old Len Goodman gets on my nerves.

There's been so many, I think [Lucas Goodman and I] share this, but for us, Afropunk was a really big moment just because it was in New York.

I'm a Gemini and Lucas Goodman is a Leo, so we definitely wanted some duality. We definitely balance each other out in a lot of ways, but we're also very different.

I’m a huge fan of the program Democracy Now, which is hosted by Amy Goodman, and I subscribe to the podcast.

Me, Billy Crystal and John Goodman hang out non-stop, and all we do is silly voices. We hang out in a little closet and do voices together.

It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to play solos in a big band set-up.

The proper word for me," Robin Goodman says, "is me.

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience, unless they are still up.