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"The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability."
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"When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her."
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"I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard."

"I heard Mr. Wild Bill Davis. I heard him play in 1930 and he told me that it would take me fifteen years just to learn the pedals, the pedals of the organ and I got mad."

"In my fantasies, I always wanted to play the ingenue, but in reality, in my bones, I am so used to playing the grandmother that I don't feel safe or even sure that I can do it."

"When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible."

"I am not a pop musician; I don't want to play bubble-gummy pop stuff."

"We decided to play the NEC because we were asked to, and because we actually rather like the place: we've always enjoyed doing it before. We don't often get sensible offers to play in the UK, so most years we just play on the mainland, with the occasional exotic detour."
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