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Whitney Balliett Quotes

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

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

Whitney Balliett
Gone, Brilliant, Explosions
Whitney Balliett (1989). “Barney, Bradley, and Max: sixteen portraits in jazz”, New York : Oxford University Press

A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.

Whitney Balliett
Together, Taste, Bundles
'Dinosaurs in the Morning' (1962) introductory note

Critics are biased, and so are readers. (Indeed, a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.) But intelligent readers soon discover how to allow for the windage of their own and a critic's prejudices.

Whitney Balliett
Intelligent, Together, Prejudice
Whitney Balliett (1978). “Dinosaurs in the Morning: Forty-One Pieces on Jazz”, Greenwood Publishing Group

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