“…and she might be jivin’ too.”

I happen to like New York.
I happen to like this town.
I like the city air, I like to drink of it.
The more I know New York, the more I think of it.
I like the sight and sound and even the stink of it…

Performed by Solomon, with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Herbert Menges.

Exuberant early jazz by Jelly Roll Morton and His Red Hot Peppers.

“The literary vocation is not a hobby, a sport, a pleasant leisure-time activity. It is an all-encompassing, all-excluding occupation, an urgent priority, a freely chosen servitude that turns its victims (its lucky victims) into slaves...”

Thrilling long program at the 2002 Winter Olympics that vaulted 16-year-old Sarah Hughes from fourth place into first.

“We have a new lawyer, Dr. Bucephalus. There is little about his external appearance to remind one of the time when he was still Alexander the Great’s battle horse…”

“On April 11, 2001, playing in his eighth major league game, it took Suzuki just eight seconds to go from curiosity to phenomenon.”

“While many a harmonica player has attempted to create the sound of a choo-choo pulling into the station, few have done it with as much imagination and fervor as McAbee….”

Jack Rebney struggles to finish filming a Winnebago commercial on a hot Minnesota day.

The Bruce Dickinson demands more cowbell from Blue Öyster Cult.

“‘These people don’t know a thing about rhythm,’ he cried scornfully, and he shut his eyes, thrust forward his red-bearded chin and began a sort of tattoo with his feet…”

Philip Baker Hall as library investigations officer Mr. Bookman, interrogating Jerry about a long-overdue copy of Tropic of Cancer.

Ingenious design by the Brazilian art director.

“Ron Simonsen has dreamed of meeting 1970s TV star Chad Everett for most of his life. Finally, at age 45, he gets to do it.”

“I am very sorry for the poor little puppy in the Russian Satellite.” The King of Calypso laments the fate of Laika, the Russian dog launched into oblivion aboard Sputnik 2 in 1957.

“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance…and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.”

“The famous Lord Halifax was rather a pretender to taste than really possessed of it. When I had finished the two or three first books of my translation of the Iliad, that Lord ‘desired to have the pleasure of hearing them read at his house…’”

“I am a crippled family who need som mony to git out of Scotland a few hundred will do.”

“‘Cramer, Cramer! We shall never be able to do anything like that!’ As the theme was repeated and wrought up to the climax, Beethoven, swaying his body to and fro, marked the time and in every possible manner manifested a delight rising to enthusiasm…”