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"It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do."
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"I have no trouble with the twelve inches between my elbow and my palm. It's the seven inches between my ears that's bent."
"The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled."
"If you can get the proper definition of trouble, then we can find out who the real troublemakers are."
"I used to have trouble in front of an audience. I felt uncomfortable."
"I'm trying to get hold of them... the trouble is a lot of the companies that recorded and produced the albums went bust, so I don't know where to get the masters."
"When you have a good script you're almost in more trouble than when you have a terrible script."
"The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties."
"Had Roosevelt been caught, we would have been in a lot of trouble. It would have been very embarrassing."
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"We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old."
"I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home."
"My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store."
"We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don't think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again."
"Just blow in it and sound bad for about a year and then make it sound a little bit better, and you get a little band together, and then you get a few jobs. You take four guys that sound half bad, but if they're 25 percent each, they can give 100 percent, you know?"
"We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother."
"If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle."
"Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing."
"It's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play."
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