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"I grew up with a lot of boys. I probably have a lot of testosterone for a woman."

"I took up French boys and wine and I studied psychology."

"Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle."

"I truly don't know why the boys are getting all the votes - it could be because they are really amazing, and that's all there is to it. They're really, really good and every single boy deserves to be in the competition right now, and so do the two girls."

"The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself."

"I'm one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. I'm just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling them how to play."
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"I just came from Aspen, Colorado and they had fifteen kids I played for and they all played horns."

"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."

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

"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."

"My first recording, a guy came down to Philadelphia and heard me play and he introduced me to Alfred Lion."
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