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"That's really what was wonderful for me growing up, since I got to know so many of the songwriters who liked me and thought I had talent. They would then tell me how to read a lyric and sing a song, and challenge me to try and find a different end to a song."
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"It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ."
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"Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions."
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"We're all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent."
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"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."
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"He has tongue of a writer."
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"The talent of a true writer and poet is in the ear."
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"Certain abilities in you sometimes yearn to be expressed."
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"Ability and talent never loose the value, because demand for it highly exceeds the supply of it."
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"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."
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"What you are good at, you never do it free!"
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"I had years of experience that I still needed to accumulate and go through."
Experience
"The way I teach people to sing... I have them talk the lyric out until it sounds like something they really believe, like an actor with a monologue."
People
"That's really what was wonderful for me growing up, since I got to know so many of the songwriters who liked me and thought I had talent. They would then tell me how to read a lyric and sing a song, and challenge me to try and find a different end to a song."
Talent
"Rosemary was a little nervous about going onstage, but she went on with us. I saw her at a party, and a couple of months later they called me about doing the act."
Act
"We teach young kids from 8 to 14 or 15 about their musical heritage through great songs written by American songwriters. We don't do too many modern composers, although we include songs from Billy Joel and other writers like him."
American
"Johnny Mercer was my father's best friend and became mine as well. And Harold Arlen, whom I would call Uncle Harry, and Harry Warren: those were ones who I really became close to."
Father
"So many schools have cut the music classes out of their curriculum. We're trying to fill that gap by teaching the teachers how to educate the kids about their musical heritage."
Music
"The musicians recommend that I sing a sing the way it is written the first time and then start to look for other notes that aren't in the melody."
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