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Suzi Elton provides business writing that attracts targeted prospects to your service business and converts them into clients for you.

“Raise Your Prices” Coach | Website and Online Content Writer Strategist | Content For Lead Funnel Websites | Develop And Describe High-End Programs | Increase the Price of Your Services 2X to 10X She is a Robert Middleton Certified Action Plan Marketing Coach, as well as a professional writer. Her website offers a free series of 8 assessments you can use to analyze your own site. To learn about h

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08/09/2026

Buddy Guy said this about Stevie Ray Vaughn and his guitar playing:

“What’s that song by Eddie Floyd?

He was like thunder.

He was like lightning.

Every time he strike, it was frightening.”

This quote comes from the 1995 DVD “A Tribute To Stevie Ray Vaughn”.

That uniqueness was so dramatic, it was frightening.

And it helps you ask yourself how you're living your own life.

Legendary blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughn died tragically in a 1990 helicopter crash.

Because his styling and phrasing were so unique, it was a huge loss. There was no one like him.

I've been saving quotes and stories for decades.

Every time I'm watching or reading...or living...

and something touches me...

I have to jot it down.

Each of these quotes and stories personally touch me.

I want to share them and their meaning with you.

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08/08/2026

Benny Goodman’s appearance at Carnegie Hall (1938) was the first Jazz band to play there. This was a shocking thing at the time because it wasn’t classical music.

“Things did not get off to a good start. You listen on the first number…they’re stiff and the band is scared. Gene Kruppa-what he did for Goodman should always be acknowledged.”

“He’s saying, ‘This band sounds sad. We’re gonna bomb. We’re in trouble.’ And he knows that he has to do something. He’s not trying to wake up the crowd. He’s trying to wake up the band, trying to relax them or scare them beyond their fear and gets to that break in the arrangement.”

“He hits every piece of equipment in his drum kit as loud as he can and as many times as he can in something that is nearly cacophonous. It doesn’t make any sense…(but it woke up the band and they started swinging).”
“ ‘By the end of that first piece’ one trumpet player remembered, ‘we were back home.’...young people and older…concert goers alike got up and danced in the aisles of the staid old hall.”

“ ‘I think the band I had at Carnegie Hall was the best I ever had’ Goodman remembered.” (The film shows everyone in the hall tapping their feet and bouncing in their seats.)
Phil Schaap Historian, Ken Burns documentary series Jazz, Episode 6 Swing: The Velocity of Celebration

I’ve always loved this story because it shows how one person can make the difference and can enliven both “the team” and the audience. It makes me smile to picture the electricity they created.

Have you had any experiences where one person (maybe you) ignited the whole group?

08/02/2026

Harvey Keitel’s character, Weldon Parrish, in the Movie "Shadows In the Sun":

Speaks about how fear keeps people from having the lives they want.

"Most people are so content living in their dreary little worlds.

They just cling to the edge of the toilet bowl,

trying to keep their heads above water,

hoping some fool won’t come along and pull the chain.

It’s only when they hear that flushing sound

and they begin to slide down into the abyss

that they start taking stock of their lives."

I always thought this was such a thought-provoking comment.

It makes me ask myself how I might be living that way.

I've been saving quotes and stories for decades.

Every time I'm watching or reading...or living...

and something touches me...

I have to jot it down.

Each of these quotes and stories personally touch me.

I want to share them and their meaning with you.

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08/01/2026

“I had been working as a dishwasher and I saw a call in a newspaper for actors at the American Negro Theater, and when I auditioned, I read so poorly I was thrown out. [The director] found me wanting --not just as an actor but as a person.

He grabbed me by the seat of my pants and said, "Just get out of here and go get yourself a job as a dishwasher or something" and slammed the door behind me.

I was halfway down the block going to catch a bus downtown to find a job as a dishwasher and I said, ‘Wait a minute. I didn't tell him I was a dishwasher.’ He was passing a judgment on my worth. And that was the trigger."
September/October 2008 AARP Magazine article on Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier as an actor always carried himself with dignity and self respect. His work was groundbreaking in presenting a different image of black people onscreen. He would never play an ignorant, unscrupulous, or foolish man.

I always had great respect for his ability to operate so effectively “against the tide” of the culture. That takes true guts.

What are your thoughts about this version of (to me) quiet integrity?

07/26/2026

“It’s always heartwarming to see a prejudice defeated by a deeper prejudice.”

Lone Star is one of my favorite movies of all time.

It stars a young (and sizzling hot) Matthew McConaughey.

And also Chris Christopherson (love him).

And Chris Cooper (a tremendously underrated actor).

It's a complex story with different concurrent plot lines.

I had to watch it repeatedly to understand the whole story.

It's about the complex "stew" of South Texas along the Rio Grande.

But it so perfectly shows all sides of Texas issues with care.

The acting is magnificent.

The writing is exquisite...with nary a single misstep.

NOT A SINGLE MOMENT OF BOREDOM.

This movie "went extinct" for many years.

I had to buy my own DVD off Amazon so I could have a copy.

Very recently, it became available on Amazon Prime streaming.

I highly recommend it for your entertainment.

And I bet you can't only watch it once.

Lone Star
R 1996 ‧ Western/Mystery ‧ 2h 15m

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07/25/2026

As a soldier, Tom Dowd worked on the Manhattan Project developing the atomic bomb from 1942 to 1945.

After the war, he said, “In 1946, I planned to return to Columbia University and acquire my degree (in physics)…if I went back to school…and I took the chemistry, math or physics courses, they would still be teaching me 1939 physics and I was part of developing 1950 physics during the 40’s. And they would not be able to tell me what I know existed. They’d still be preaching 1939-1940 beliefs. That was insane.”

Tom Dowd & the Language of Music (2003)
A documentary about Tom Dowd, who was an innovative recording engineer and producer of numerous noted albums.

I’ve always found this quote to be profoundly fascinating. They couldn’t teach him what he already knew to be true.

Have you had any experiences like this? What does this story bring up for you?

07/19/2026

This quote is hilarious and so true.

It comes from The Red Green Show, A Canadian comedy show that ran for 15 seasons starting in 1991.

Here's a summary I got from Google. It doesn't state the exact source.

"Imagine a Canadian version of "Home Improvement," add Canadian-born comedian Steve Smith and call him by his not-so-handyman alias, Red Green, and you have this series, a sitcom-sketch comedy hybrid. It is set in the fictional town of Possum Lake, Canada, and follows the mishaps of Red, the leader of the Possum Lodge men's club, and his nephew, Harold, in their plight to be good handymen."

It was quirky, silly, and always good for laughs at ridiculous human antics.

I've been saving quotes and stories for decades.

Every time I'm watching or reading...or living...

and something touches me...

I have to jot it down.

Each of these quotes and stories personally touch me.

I want to share them and their meaning with you.

+++++++++

Interested in a strategy for website content? DM me and let's talk about it.

07/18/2026

"In the late 1940’s, when Quincy Delight Jones lived on 22nd Avenue, just a block from his alma mater, Garfield High School (in Seattle), there was a place they called 'the dream window' in the attic, where he and his seven brothers and sisters slept.

'We would look out there', recalls Jones' youngest brother, Richard, now a federal judge in Seattle, 'and think, 'What is it I can possibly do? Where is life going to take me?' We weren’t looking at a spectacular lake. We grew up looking at the blackberry bushes and garbage in the lot across the street. You had to have a big imagination.’

A big imagination indeed."
Pacific Northwest, the Seattle Times Sunday Magazine, August 31, 2008, article "Q", about Quincy Jones, the quintessential music man

I have the greatest admiration for people who overcome great odds. It’s a rough road, but this is the story line for many of the greats. In my mind, there is something that makes them a better person than those who’ve had things handed to them.

What are your thoughts about this mini-story about Quincy Jones and overcoming adversity?

07/12/2026

Eric Clapton talks about the first time he heard Stevie Ray Vaughan on the radio playing guitar.

“I was in my car and remember thinking, ‘I have to find out before the day is over…who that guitar player is.’

That doesn’t happen to me very often that I get that way about listening to music.

About three or four times in my life I’ve felt that way—in a car listening to the radio…

where I’ve stopped the car, pulled over and listened…

and thought ‘I’ve got to find out before the end of the day—

not sooner or later, but I have to know now who that is.’ ”

From the 1995 DVD "A Tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughan"

Legendary blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughn had his career and life cut short when he died tragically in a 1990 helicopter crash.

It was a great loss to the world of music.

I've been saving quotes and stories for decades.

Every time I'm watching or reading...or living...

and something touches me...

I have to jot it down.

Each of these quotes and stories personally touch me.

I want to share them and their meaning with you.

+++++++++

Interested in a strategy for website content? DM me and let's talk about it.

07/11/2026

Neil Baldwin tells the charming story of Soprano, Anna Case, and her unbelievable "rags-to riches" life.

"...a blacksmith’s child...born October 29, 1889...

She sold soap, ran a hack service with her pony and cart for twenty-five cents a ride, scrubbed floors and cooked for her neighbors for fifty cents a day to be able to afford singing lessons in New York City every Monday.

Coming back in the dark on the train, she helped her sickly mother care for her three younger siblings.

At fifteen, Anna played the organ in church for $12 a month, and began to teach music around town, driving miles out into the countryside to meet with pupils, carrying a revolver for protection along dark roads.

She found a position in a church choir in Plainfield, but her deeply religious Dutch Reform father considered travel on Sundays to be sinful, so Anna went on Saturday, scraping together the money to pay for room and board that night.

At twenty, Anna moved to Philadelphia and took a job singing three afternoons a week as tea-time entertainment in the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel.

After the applause died down from her very first concert, she was approached by a member of the audience overwhelmed by her elegance and beauty.

He was Andreas Dippel, general manager of the Metropolitan Opera Company, where Anna Case made her debut as the critic’s darling, the rags-to-riches 'Miracle Girl of the Opera', a truly all-American phenomenon, the first soprano star at the Met who had never studied abroad.

Anna claimed most of the leading lyric soprano roles over the coming eight years..."

From the book, "Edison", by Neil Baldwin.

I've been saving stories for decades and this is one of my favorites.

I'm committed to whatever I do, but when I read this story, I wonder if I could even come close to the drive Anna had.

► She chose to succeed in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

► It didn't matter what life threw at her, she found a way to pursue singing.

► She took enormous risks because she HAD to sing.

I love this story.

Do you relate to it?

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