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"The only time that I am really truly happy - when I feel at my best - is when I'm on the stage."
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"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."

"The value of time is immeasurable."

"Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."

"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."

"Don't equate effective living to being busy."

"People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground."

"Time passes..and a billion lives are affected in ways we'll never know."
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"And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve."

"My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!"

"Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang."

"This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish."

"I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind."

"It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation."

"A few years ago, I thought, I'll never make it. I started to go to the doctor to help me lose weight."

"I don't care who's playing. Even if it's my favorite artist, I'm probably not gonna go and see him."
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