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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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"The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties."
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"No untroubled day has ever dawned for me."
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"Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you."
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"The trouble with normal is it always gets worse."
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"My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down."
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"I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf."
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"The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole."
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"I wish something on T.V. would trouble me. Then maybe I would watch it."
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"So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig."
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"I believe much trouble would be saved if we opened our hearts more."
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"I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins."
School
"We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old."
Life
"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."
Music
"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."
Home
"It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do."
Trouble
"I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe."
Europe
"We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too."
Heart
"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."
Family
"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."
Time
"I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn't have MTV, we didn't have television."
People
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