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"I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted."
"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
"The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist."
"You know, Simon he's an artist representative, but Randy and Paula actually were in the industry as artists so they had, you know, the information that they offered to us from their aspect."
"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
"But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist."
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"There isn't a dearth of it, but I will confess that it's harder for me to find songs on which I'm willing to invest anything from ten to fifteen hours writing an arrangement than it was in times past."
"Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two."
"Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio."
"As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else."
"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."
"I got into radio when I was eight, and I was one of the busiest child dramatic actors in America."
"Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money."
"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."
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