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"Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two."
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"Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice."

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"We need to stop telling [women], "Get a mentor and you will excel". Instead, we need to tell them, "Excel and you will get a mentor"."

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

"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."

"As Buddy Rich, for instance, broke into the business at the age of three, I think it was, on drums, so indeed did I break into the business at the age of four as a singer."

"As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else."

"I got into radio when I was eight, and I was one of the busiest child dramatic actors in America."

"Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money."
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