"Sometimes being famous gets in the way of doing what you want to do."

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"Sometimes being famous gets in the way of doing what you want to do."

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"I think there are a lot of people who really want to be famous, they really do. I don't. It sort of gets in the way of the everyday things that I do."

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"Sometimes being famous gets in the way of doing what you want to do."

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"But I am very grateful for my success, and with success, of course, comes a whole lot of celebrity."

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"It's just that some people are lucky and people still seem to enjoy the music."

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"I really, really enjoy music and that's why I do what I do."

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"It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it."

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"I'm just one of the lucky people. I have no other reason for my longevity."

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"I also met, early on Ella Fitzgerald. Her songbooks are some of the most amazing bodies of work."

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