Speaker 1

Speaker 1

1. “I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” -Daisy Buchanan

2. “Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.” -Meyer Wolfsheim 

3. “It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.” -Jay Gatsby

Speaker 2

Speaker 2

1. “Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.” -Jay Gatsby

2. “His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him.” - Nick Carraway

3. “The rich get richer and the poor get - children.” -Myrtle Wilson

Speaker 3

Speaker 3

1. “Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”― F. Scott Fitzgerald

2. “The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.” -Nick Carraway

3. “I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.” -Jay Gatsby

Speaker 4

Speaker 4

1. “There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind…” -F. Scott Fitzgerald

2. “And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.” -Jay Gatsby

3. “She thought I knew a lot because I knew different things from her” -F. Scott Fitzgerald

Speaker 5

Speaker 5

1. “I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.” -Jay Gatsby

2. “Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!” -Jay Gatsby

3. “It takes two to make an accident.” -Daisy Buchanan

Speaker 6

Speaker 6

1. “Human sympathy has its limits.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald

2. “You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.” -Nick Carraway

3. “Most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald

Speaker 7

Speaker 7

1. "Whenever you feel like criticizing any one, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.” -Nick Carraway

2. “Murder your darlings. ” - F. Scott Fitzgerald

3. “Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.”  - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Speaker 1

Speaker 1

1. “Life is a lot like jazz… it’s best when you improvise.” — George Gershwin

2. “I don’t want no drummer. I set the tempo.” — Bessie Smith

3. There are no two words in the English language more harmful than "good job". -Terence Fletcher, Whiplash

Speaker 2

Speaker 2

1. "Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them." Louis Armstrong

2. "What we play is life." Louis Armstrong

3. “It’s never too late to be whoever you want.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald

Speaker 3

Speaker 3

1. “There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit, Number 2- Never forget rule number 1.” -Duke Ellington

2. “A problem is a chance for you to do your best.” Duke Ellington

3. “The only thing better than singing is more singing.” -Ella Fitzgerald

Speaker 4

Speaker 4

1. “Forgive me if I don’t have the words. Maybe I can sing it and you’ll understand.” -Ella Fitzgerald

2. “It is always possible to create something original.” - George Gershwin

3. “It’s a long old road, but I know I'm gonna find the end.” -Bessie Smith

Speaker 5

Speaker 5

1. “If you ain’t got in in ya, you can’t blow it.” -Louis Armstrong

2. “The rhythm persisted, the unfaltering common meter of blues, but the blueness itself, the sorrow, the despair, began to give way to hope.” Rudolph Fisher

3. “An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.” -Langston Hughes

Speaker 6

Speaker 6

1. “You may have holes in your shoes, but don’t let the people out front know it. Shine the tops.” -Earl Hines

2. “I never want to be anything more than I am; what I don’t have, I don’t need.” -Louis Armstrong

3. I’d rather die drunk, broke at 34, and have people at a dinner table talk about me than live to be rich and sober at 90 and nobody remembers who I was. -Andrew Neiman, Whiplash

Speaker 7

Speaker 7

1. “Everyone’s got to be different. You can’t copy anybody and end up with anything” -Billie Holiday

2. "I'm all in favor of getting grants for musicians. Or any other good brand of Scotch." - Pepper Adams

3. “What we play is life." -Louis Armstrong 

Speaker 1

Speaker 1

1. “Don't mistake my kindness for weakness. I am kind to everyone, but when someone is unkind to me, weak is not what you are going to remember about me.” - Al Capone

2. “Everybody deserves a fresh start once in a while.” - Bugsy Siegel

3. “Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.” - Margaret Mead

Speaker 2

Speaker 2

1. “Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.” William Kennedy

2. “Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.” - Herbert Hoover

3. Courage calls to courage everywhere, and its voice cannot be denied - Millicent Garrett Fawcett

Speaker 3

Speaker 3

1. “It is obvious to you that the struggle will be an unequal one, but I shall make it - I shall make it as long as I have an ounce of strength left in me, or any life left in me.” - Emmeline Pankhurst

2. “America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.” - Woodrow Wilson

3. “All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.” - Calvin Coolidge

Speaker 4

Speaker 4

1. “You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.”- Al Capone

2. “I want them to have the rewards of their own industry. This is the chief meaning of freedom.” - Calvin Coolidge

3. “Be careful who you call your friends. I’d rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies.” -Al Capone

Speaker 5

Speaker 5

1. “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself, aloud.” - Coco Chanel

2. The best protection a person can have is courage -Elizabeth Cady Stanton

3. “No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.” - Calvin Coolidge

Speaker 6

Speaker 6

1. "The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world. -Susan B. Anthony

2. Every truth we see is ours to give the world, not to keep for ourselves alone - Elizabeth Cady Stanton 

3. “A day without laughter is a day wasted” - Charlie Chapin

Speaker 7

Speaker 7

1. We break windows, burn things, because war is the only thing men listen to. - Violet Cambridge

2. “Never stop fighting till the fight is done.” -Eliot Ness

3. “Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.” - Calvin Coolidge