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"When we write, we complement each other. We wrote six songs, Barry and I, while Robin was ill during the American tour, and they were terrible until Robin came back, and then everything worked out."
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"Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them."
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"As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long."
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"Miscellaneous is always the largest category."
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"For if the Germans do not help defend the West, American and Canadian troops must cross the seas to do the job, and I venture to believe that the troops - if not the statesmen - regard this as an interference at least in their own domestic affairs."
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"When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can't tell you what that phenomenon is."
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"I have got an anthology album out. The American version has got the same mixes but the European version, I remixed them in the studio and added a couple of things that I have always wanted to add."
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"The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover."
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"In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster."
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"We don't start a job that we can't finish... that's the American way."
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"And the reason I really appreciated this is because after the picture came out, I was invited by the American Psychiatric Association to give a lecture. I couldn't believe it!"
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"No one knew me until I met my wife Lulu. Lulu's mother used to ask, Which one is Maurice? For six months she thought Lulu was dating Barry."
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"We don't mind being ripped apart, but don't rip the songs apart. They're like our kids."
Being
"FOr a while, I'd never had the opportunity to prove on TV that I could play the piano."
Opportunity
"I suppose being his twin made me understand Robin that much more easily."
Being
"I think we have to act like stars because it is expected of us. So we drive our big cars and live in our smart houses."
Act
"It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together."
Music
"As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back."
Trust
"I write the music because I can't really write lyrics. But I can write chords like Robin's never heard of. So I provide the music for them to add the lyrics to."
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"When Andy died, I just drank to dumb my mind."
Dumb
"I'll be honest. We copied everyone... the Beatles, the Bachelors. It was the only way people would even listen to you."
People
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