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"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something."
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"Everything popular is wrong."
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"Jerry and I hoped that it would be a popular bestseller."
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"I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that."
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"I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick."
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"I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different."
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"Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens."
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"Today, you're either very big or you're playing stadiums or you're not playing anymore. You're either popular where everybody will go to a 20,000 seat arena to see you or they won't go to see you at all."
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"The way I see it, all the popular singers are strippers."
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"But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in."
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"Buddy Rich is one of a kind; he's a genius, and that's all there is to it."
Genius

"As a singer, the biggest joy I have are the arrangements."
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"I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage."
Performance

"I was a singer professionally when I was four years old, and I did not really begin to play any instrument - the first one, of course, was drums - till I was about nine years old."
First

"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."
Time

"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."
Time

"But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in."
Popular

"So I'm sorry, I'm going to continue to talk to the people, because I do believe that if they get to know you and what you are as a human being, they can more appreciate what you are as a performer."
People

"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."
Past

"Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio."
Chicago
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