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"I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas."
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"This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war."
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"War is the business of barbarians."
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"There isn't a viler creature on earth than a politician who sends the children of others to the war but not his own children!"
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"There's in people simply an urge to destroy, an urge to kill, to murder and rage, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated, and grown will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again."
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"War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods."
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"Women and children make you weak, get rid of them when you are in war."
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"It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century."
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"One man on the wall is worth ten beneath it."
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"Serious sport is war minus the shooting."
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"A war between Europeans is a civil war."
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"I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music."
Music
"I loved Billie Holiday more than any other person other than myself on the stage. Yeah, I do."
Holiday
"But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying."
Saying
"I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas."
War
"I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow."
Work
"There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be."
Men
"It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter."
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