“The reports on me were now: ‘All Lenny Bruce seems concerned with is making the band laugh.’ That should have been my first hint of the direction in which I was going: abstraction. Musicians, jazz musicians especially, appreciate art forms that are extensions of realism, as opposed to realism in a representational form.” -LB



![“Lenny Bruce: L is for Lenny” by. Chris Sanchez
[Bay Area Comedy Legend.]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lew6cpKvgq1qcxc43o1_500.jpg)