Quotes from authors that died on Feb 4th
With my little band, I did everything they did with a big band. I made the blues jump.
Louis Jordan
One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.
Edward Sapir
Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.
Edward Sapir
Midi is my hobby.
J. J. Johnson
I cried all the way to the bank.
Liberace
Nathan Lane 
Billy Preston 
Richard Hovey 
John James Ingalls 
Tim Curry 
Amy Goodman 
Phil Silvers 
Willie Keeler