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"You can't second-guess your audience. You can only do what you think is right. If you do that, your audience will appreciate you."
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"You wiggle to the left, you wiggle to the right, you do the Ooby Dooby with all your might."

"If you're cast right you can actually just let yourself go because all your gestures will be right, all your intonations will be right because you just somewhere understand who this person is."

"Three times during the show the drums are lifted over the audience - I go up and out, right, left and back."

"The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they've had minor leagues - they've had local rightwing guys who've become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that's how it goes. We haven't had that. It isn't like we have a farm team."

"It is important to keep your head up and follow what you believe is right."

"If you put the right things out there the right things will happen."

"When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'll say to myself, I wrote this and he doesn't know it!"

"There are a lot of visual marks that have to be hit, and lines that need to be said in a right way - so there wasn't really any improvisation on the set when it came to the bulk of the script."

"I keep both of my Tonys on my mantle. They're in front of a mirror so if you look at just the right angle, it looks like I have four!"

"If you go into a relationship expecting someone else to fill you up, you're doomed right off."
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"I've been lucky to be able to make the records I've wanted to make. The record company has never pressured me to cut certain songs."

"It's difficult to get started-when it comes to dealing with an unknown quantity, people are reluctant to trust their own opinion. It helps if two or three people give you a boost."

"Both my parents worked, so I was home alone a lot, and I would listen to their records. They belonged to the Columbia House record club, so they had records!"

"I don't feel like I'm on a mission. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to."

"I enjoyed hearing people do their own songs. I became attracted to singer-songwriters. I became interested in them as people; was curious about what they wanted to say."

"Somehow you can tell the difference when a song is written just to get on the radio and when what someone does is their whole life. That comes through in Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Willie Nelson. There is no separating their life from their music."
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