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"I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing."
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"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."

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"My look was even more solidified when I started singing in Greenwich Village with my sister Lucy. We wore matching dresses as the Simon Sisters."

"It didn't matter as much because I'm a singer, not an actress, but my face is more acceptable in a way now than when I first came on the scene, because I'm part black."

"I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack."

"But when we listened to the radio, it was Bill Haley and the Comets or the Everly Brothers."

"Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four."

"We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure."

"You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new."
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