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"It may sound a bit like an army barracks, but the truth of the matter is: there must be some time laid aside for arranging, time for working on either a book or an article - I've written two articles in the last four months for the New York Times book review section."
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"Time is standing still. We are measuring ourselves by how far we are going."

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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."

"As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else."

"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."

"I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to have a hit single or a hit album."
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