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"It was very hard to get any records, so the only source for us to really hear what was happening was listening to the Voice of America. We would be taping all the broadcast and then sharing the tapes and talking about it."
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"I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America."
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"In America you need a bodyguard to go out."
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"America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash--and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. What is the mystery of these innumberable editions of The Lamplighter (by Maria Susanna Cummins), and other books neither better nor worse? Worse they could not be, and better they need not be, when they sell by the hundred thousand."
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"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."
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"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected."
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"England and America are two countries separated by the same language."
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"An asylum for the sane would be empty in America."
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"If you take any populated place - any major city in America - and drive 45 minutes from that spot directly out of town you'll be in about as country a place as you'll ever find."
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"They take pride in their schools. They begin to participate, where, when they are renters, they don't do that. So what we're doing by this program is strengthening America."
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"Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the country that existed almost 50 years ago. This is truly sad."
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"Still for fun, I play the drums, but I don't do much recording with them."
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"My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer."
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"The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone."
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"The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing."
Music
"Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music."
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"I spent well over a year on the road with Sarah Vaughn. That was amazing."
Road
"The band couldn't have happened anywhere else in the world but New York. That was the catalyst."
World
"It was very hard to get any records, so the only source for us to really hear what was happening was listening to the Voice of America. We would be taping all the broadcast and then sharing the tapes and talking about it."
America
"Emotions are the fuel to really move you along - that's the only way you can create music. If you don't feel any emotions, it's not going to happen."
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"It's not really that I didn't want to perform at all. What I didn't want to do was try to put together a band, rehearse, on my own. You know what I mean?"
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