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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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"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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"The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties."
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"My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down."
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"The way out of trouble is never as simple as the way in."
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"No untroubled day has ever dawned for me."
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"I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf."
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"I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock."
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"Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb."
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"Every writer I know has trouble writing."
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"Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you."
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"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
"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
"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
"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?"
Job
"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
"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
"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
"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."
Experience
"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
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