"Any time I need to get a serious attitude adjustment, I put on one of their records, and there are examples there for all time to keep us honest and keep us reaching they'll never be eclipsed."
-Benny Green
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"Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention.“
-Benny Green
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"I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
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"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
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-Gordon B. Hinckley
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"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."
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"Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be."
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"Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"
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