James Kaplan Quotes

#1. I hate cops. You're either a cop or a reporter. And I hate cops and newspapermen.

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#2. Sinatra once said that the only two people he was ever afraid of were his mother and Tommy Dorsey - a flip comment but also a sincere and deeply significant one.

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#3. I'm a Fool" may not be a great song, but Sinatra's shattering performance of it transcends the material. His emotion is so naked that we're at once embarrassed and compelled: we literally feel for him.

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#4. She stopped me cold when she said, 'What color is the wind?'

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#5. Why don't you steal the pattern out of Kenton's '23 Degrees North, 82 Degrees West'?" the trombonist, an alumnus of Stan Kenton's big band, said.

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#6. He swung so hard, you could've turned him upside down and shaken every piece of change out of his pocket, and he would have never missed a beat.

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#7. to be all the way across the country. "Dad was on the air in the middle of a radio show broadcast live from Hollywood

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#8. Francis, I'd play the Godfather for you," he told the startled director. "I wouldn't do it for those guys at Paramount, but I'd do it for you.

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#9. Then Frank said, 'Have you ever heard that when five o'clock comes, it's martini time? We could be right in the middle of a scene, but it's over for me, because it's martini time. Did you ever hear that?

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