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"Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film."
Father
"As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else."
Feelings
"I was a singer professionally when I was four years old, and I did not really begin to play any instrument - the first one, of course, was drums - till I was about nine years old."
First
"How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen."
Time
"So I'm sorry, I'm going to continue to talk to the people, because I do believe that if they get to know you and what you are as a human being, they can more appreciate what you are as a performer."
People
"I want to sing for the broadest possible audience."
Want
"My initial career, really, as a baby, was as a singer."
Baby
"I got into radio when I was eight, and I was one of the busiest child dramatic actors in America."
Actor
"I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage."
Performance
"Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money."
Money
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"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."
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""Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."
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"I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit."
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"One of the first groups we signed was the Fifth Dimension."
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"The first amp I had back in the '50s was a small Fender."
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"Sound is the first thing that we tune into."
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"First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out."
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"My first jam was at Hotel Diplomat opening for Hollywood."
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"I wanted a name that would put us first in the phone directory, or second if you count ABBA."
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"The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that."
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