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"I've also been working with the Challengers Club in the inner city of Los Angeles for 15 years now, I guess, and it's essentially an inner-city recreation club for boys and girls."

"The costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them."

"The boys are in such a mood that if someone introduced the Ten Commandments, they'd cut them down to seven."
Boys,

"Boys frustrate me. I hate all their indirect messages, I hate game playing. Do you like me or don't you? Just tell me so I can get over you."
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"My first recording, a guy came down to Philadelphia and heard me play and he introduced me to Alfred Lion."

"I just came from Aspen, Colorado and they had fifteen kids I played for and they all played horns."

"Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning."

"I heard Mr. Wild Bill Davis. I heard him play in 1930 and he told me that it would take me fifteen years just to learn the pedals, the pedals of the organ and I got mad."

"And then when I found my sound, it took me two and a half weeks to find my sound and when I did I pulled out all the stops, all the stops I could find."
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