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
Klaus Schulze 
Marguerite de Valois 
Lloyd Kaufman 
John Hickenlooper 
Alexander Mackenzie 
Hoot Gibson 
Peter Steele 
Lewis Cass