"As Buddy Rich, for instance, broke into the business at the age of three, I think it was, on drums, so indeed did I break into the business at the age of four as a singer."

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"As Buddy Rich, for instance, broke into the business at the age of three, I think it was, on drums, so indeed did I break into the business at the age of four as a singer."

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"I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be."

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"Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two."

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"I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to have a hit single or a hit album."

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"As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else."

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"I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage."

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"But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in."

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"How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen."

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"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."

"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."

"Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark."

"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"

"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."

"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."

"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."

"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."

"It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures."

"You should not consider a man's age but his acts."

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"I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be."

"Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two."

"I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to have a hit single or a hit album."

"My initial career, really, as a baby, was as a singer."

"Talking money is crass; so I'm not going to tell you what I made last year."

"As a singer, the biggest joy I have are the arrangements."

"As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else."

"I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage."

"But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in."

"How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen."