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"However strange your style may seem to others, never mind, because it is your style!"

"In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing."

"Coco Chanel used to talk about wearing more than one string of pearls. Why wear one if you can wear two, or something to that effect. I think that one string of pearls is just fine. But that's because my pearls are black, hers were white."

"The whole point in developing your own style is to find your own voice."

"Your clothes should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to show you're a lady."

"Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others."

"Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand."
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"Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence."

"I feel like a lot of the fundamental material, I've assimilated. So now the question is: Am I going to really get into my spiritual inheritance of music and really develop my abilities?"

"My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians."

"When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my father was known to be a great musician. When he heard me, he said 'Are you sure you're Ellis's son?'"

"Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music."

"I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy."

"I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown men. We never knew what he was talking about half the time."
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