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"When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that."
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"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."
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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."

"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."

"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."

"Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio."
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