Luciano Pavarotti - 'Music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.'.

My secret is to keep going, keep working.' Les Paul - 'I have younger friends who don't work & they aren't doing so well.Les Paul - 'We go in there & we work on altering those ideas & in many cases go in different directions.'.John Patitucci - 'The two things most important for playing any kind of music are your sound and rhythmic feeling.'.Jaco Pastorius - 'A chimpanzee could learn what I do physically, but it goes way beyond that.Jaco Pastorius - 'When you play, you play life.'.Joe Pass - 'If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterward.'.Joe Pass - 'Using drugs didn't help me play, all it did was hang me up for 15 years.'.Horace Parlan - 'The stress of being in New York takes a toll on musicians, especially Jazz musicians.'.Pay was a $1.25 a night but somebody special like Count Basie could command $1.50.' Charlie Parker - 'In Kansas City joints ran 9pm-5am.If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.' Charlie Parker - 'Music is your experience, your thoughts, your wisdom.But, man, there's no boundary line to art.' Charlie Parker - 'They teach you there's a boundary line to music.Charlie Parker - 'I kept thinking there's bound to be something else? I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it.'.Charlie Parker - 'Master your instrument, master the music & then forget all that & just play.'.Charlie Parker - 'Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born.'.Charlie Parker - 'It's not all smoke and mirrors.Charlie Parker - 'If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.'.Charlie Parker - 'Don't play the saxophone.Charlie Parker -'You've got to learn your instrument.'.Charlie Parker - 'I can play all I know in eight bars.'.“The Contest” was actually based on an actual masturbation contest that Larry David and Kenny Kramer (the inspiration for Kramer) engaged in. It’s weird that both that was used as a euphemism, and that the network censors would ask them not to use it.Ĥ. In fact, the only note the censors gave the show was not to use the word, “Snapple” as a euphemism for masturbation. In fact, Jerry Seinfeld thought that, even if they’d used the word “masturation,” censors would’ve allowed it (the word has been used once before on the series), but part of the reason the episode was so funny is because the word is never used.ģ. Euphemisms were used instead: “Master of My Domain,” “Lord of my Manor,” and “Queen of my Castle.” No one thought that the episode would be aired because of the subject material, but it got through just fine. Despite the fact that most of the episode revolved around a masturbation contest, the word “masturbation” was never used in the episode. The nearly 30 million viewers who watched the rerun is like three times more than saw the Breaking Bad finale, which has to make “The Contest” the most popular rerun of all time.Ģ. In fact, the first repeat airing actually was seen by ten million more people than the original airing, which is pretty much unheard of today. The original airing of “The Contest,” was seen by about 18.5 million viewers it was the episode that really and truly helped launch Seinfeld into the ratings juggernaut it became. The episode actually garnered Larry David an Emmy Award for Best Writing, and it launched the catchphrase “Master of my Domain” as a euphemism for masturbation.Īnyway, I have no idea why I was thinking about “The Contest.” I was sitting at home alone, minding my own business, and a memory of that episode popped into my head, and I thought I’d look it up, and see if there was anything interesting about the episode I could pass along, and sure enough, there are a few fun facts about it that are worth mentioning.ġ. But, just to refresh your memory, after George is caught by his mother masturbating, the A-plot concerned a contest between the four main cast members about who could go the longest without self-pleasuring. If you don’t recall which episode of Seinfeld “The Contest” is, then you probably have never seen Seinfeld. That episode of Seinfeld is five days older than Miley Cyrus. If you want to feel really old, consider this: “The Contest,” arguably one of the best, if not the best episode of Seinfeld of all time is 21 years old.

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