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"Oh, yeah. I know Dizzy. For years he's been my buddy way, way, way back. Dizzy is one of the most astute guys and one of the most learned guys in the world and knows exactly what he's doing musically."
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"Oh, yeah. I know Dizzy. For years he's been my buddy way, way, way back. Dizzy is one of the most astute guys and one of the most learned guys in the world and knows exactly what he's doing musically."
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"Piano should be the one. Yeah, because that's your basis. Everything is right there in front of you."
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"It was my band. I organized the band and Dizzy was in the band. Dizzy was the first musical director with the band. Charlie Parker was in the band. But, no, no, that was my band."
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"I think a song that's got something to say. I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last. But I like a song that tells a story and has some meat to it, you know, that means something."
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"If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music."
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"I'm a firm believer and I think my religion is inside."
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"I'm used to hearing myself. My own voice."
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"Today the kids that are out now they make a hit record and they put them right out on the stage with 10,000 people out there and they don't know anything about the business yet."
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"My youngest daughter sings. She's going to be very good. She's graduated from Music School and she's been working down around and getting her feet wet, you know. I had her out with me for a year just showing her the ropes a little bit, but she's going to be all right."
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"I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business so everything was bright to me. I mean, I didn't think of it as being tough and things like that."
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"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."
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"The world is like a brute beast, you teach it how it should behave towards you."
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"CNN can still afford 36 bureaus around the world."
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"If you don't have an E-mail address, you're in the Netherworld. If you don't have your own World Wide Web page, you're a nobody."
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"I am a citizen of the world."
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"There is no such things as "best" in the world of individuals."
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"Because as an only child, you have your own little world."
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"The world is but a perpetual see-saw."
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"Everybody says, 'You impress me as a guy who never wanted to be a movie star.' I say, 'Everybody in the world wants to be a movie star.'"
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"I am not the world's greatest Negro violinist. I am the greatest violinist in the world!"
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