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"I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York."
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"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved."
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"Life is not about getting everything right, as much as it's about working to live right."
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"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
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"It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly."
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"Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift."
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"Having a job does not mean living."
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"Life shouldn't be about survival alone but about living."
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"Life is a reality. Live it with all your heart."
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"The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all."
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"One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today."
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"I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known."
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"I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York."
Living

"There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end."
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"I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes."
Music

"All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues."
Jazz

"I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old."
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"It's as much fun as it ever was, you know, once I get there. Gettin' there is a little harder."
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"Traveling these days has a lot of problems and also it wears you out more."
Problems

"But I got an audience that knows what I do. They usually show up, so I usually do pretty good."
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"Pizza Express has been a real godsend for me. I've been working there for several years, six weeks a year. You can go to work every night and play. It's a nice little club. It's just about the right size for me, about 150 people."
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