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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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"What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right."
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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 could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song."
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"The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it."
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"All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach."
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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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"So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be."
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"My skin is more beautiful than yours. I would be quite more popular in jail if I so chose."
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"I moved to New York from California when I was 11, so initially I was seen as the California person for a while. I didn't feel like I was popular, but I did feel confident."
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"I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird."
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"I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way."
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"Dirt makes a man look masculine. Let your hair blow in the wind, and all that. It's OK. All you have to do is look neat when you have to look neat."
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"Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices."
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