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"I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century."
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"Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it."

"I take responsibility for myself and what I do now."

"I was probably just trying to be Dennis Miller, but without the vocabulary to actually be Dennis Miller. I guess I was just less interesting than I am now, if I am interesting at all."
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"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."

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