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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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"Real talent will get through whatever the obstacles."
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"I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while."
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"A child prodigy is one with highly imaginative parents."
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"As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing."
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"I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him, and without him I'm nothing and I thank him for his great blessing."
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"I have tried to explore the little talent I have for writing."
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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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"Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best."
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"Your gift is what you were created to be."
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"My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage."
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"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."
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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."
Talent
"I had years of experience that I still needed to accumulate and go through."
Experience
"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
"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."
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"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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"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."
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