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"Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things."
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"Maybe once in a while, you know, after a hard day of shooting or something like that, I'd kick back."
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"I could talk about him all day. He's one of the most wonderful things that ever happened to me."
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"We program the festival, after 20 years, exactly the way we did on the first day."
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"I can remember Doris Day before she was a virgin."
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"Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead."
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"When someone is impatient and says, "I haven't got all day," I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?"
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"One day, we were doing a serious scene and fast talking like we do and we could not stop laughing and the director had to stop the production. We had to go to our trailer and calm down and do it all again."
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"When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing."
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"So foul and fair a day I have not seen."
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"So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way."
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"I feel honored to have been a part of that dramatic change."
Change

"Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G."
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"So I always figured I'd still be playing at this age."
Age

"I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s."
Chicago

"Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid."
Feelings

"Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating."
Talking

"Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God."
God

"Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond rings on her hands."
Music

"I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano."
Love

"Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general."
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