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"I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades."
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"Made it through high school, went to the University of Minnesota."

"High school, you don't want to go back and do it over again."

"I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school."

"School...school... is just nothing... if you think that you are going to learn something. You are here wrong, you wanna see the system?It's in about23 Channels as a start then increases... decreases... even with different topics in the end... they want you to recall the whole data from the 23 Channels as for Perfect, as For under Perfect Okay..okay... but still not perfect, as for Good... Just an Okay... and as for Middle... Little from there and little from there as for the last... Nothing at all."

"I was born in Everett; I went through grade school in Everett, high school in Seattle."

"I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young."

"Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers."
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"I don't fool with a lot of things that I can't have fun with. There's not much reward in that."

"Lord, when the song wants to pick up and go a little faster towards the end, it's hard for me to resist."

"Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian."

"I never subscribe to the stay-at-home policy. I'm not sick of the road or sick of eating in good restaurants around the country. I like to travel."

"Conway Twitty was always our local hero while I was growing up. He had a series of good bands. I wanted to sit in, if Conway would let me. And he did a couple of times."

"By the time The Band did The Last Waltz, the chemistry had changed, and it wasn't a thrill anymore to live that studio kind of life."

"A friend of mine took me to Memphis advised me that I should get in the musicians' union. He gave me a set of drums and said, Stay on the job, son."

"I played some Yamaha drums that I like a lot. And I like the Yamaha people a lot too. They've been really nice to me and The Band."
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