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"That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other."

"New York lost a classic. Carmine was an old school New Yorker."

"Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television."

"I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland."

"Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs."
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"Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way."

"Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills."

"East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State."

"Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!"

"It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's wind from the dinner horn that does it."
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