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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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"But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in."
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"Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film."
Father
"As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else."
Feelings
"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."
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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."
Career
"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
"I want to sing for the broadest possible audience."
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"My initial career, really, as a baby, was as a singer."
Baby
"I got into radio when I was eight, and I was one of the busiest child dramatic actors in America."
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