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"By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway."
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"They call it "business" because it does not become successful by a person's "idleness". Go get busy if you want to do business; but be busy for the right reasons!"
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"There are more temptations in business than in any other sphere of the society."
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"The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams."
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"Feedbacks are means for brands to look back."
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"Without differentiation you have no brand."
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"There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up."
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"Bridging innovation gaps is a strategic imperative for business execution."
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"The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified."
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"The weird thing about this business - and I'm sure this operates in many other things, but it's very present and acute in this business - is that a lot of people don't realize that they have power. Particularly actors."
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"Many have been with the show for years, and they have sources in the business, so we do know things, but until it is verified, we don't run with the story."
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"There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians."
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"By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway."
Business
"You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work."
Work
"If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience."
Living
"Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time."
Time
"If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I've ever seen was in that period of 1960 to 1965. All of sudden they were handing out major label recording contracts like they were coming in Cracker Jack boxes."
Truth
"I'm a very, very stubborn man."
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"I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician."
Jazz
"Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song."
Country
"If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count."
Family
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