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"I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s."
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"I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir."
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"When you get something like MTV, it's like regular television. You get it, and at first it's novel and brand new and then you watch every channel, every show. And then you become a little more selective and more selective, until ultimately... you wind up with a radio."
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"But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions."
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"Hang 'em first, try 'em later."
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"When Seymour saw me seated at the piano at that first rehearsal, he shouted: 'What's that kid doing here? Call your piano player and let's get started.'"
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"I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer."
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"You must first get along with yourself before you can get along with others."
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"Sound is the first thing that we tune into."
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"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."
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"The first thing I'll do if elected is demand a recount."
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"I was kind of known as a ballad singer. People would send ballads. Some of them would go over my shoulder and float off the top of my head, and I just didn't feel anything. Then I would hear a song that would absolutely shake me."
People
"I've got my whole life. There's a lifetime of experience, a lifetime of experiencing the road and the music and different players. It makes me a richer human being. I have a greater source of information to tap into, a wealth of life."
Life
"Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz record. But a lot of people have been. A lot of the people I've talked to like the record."
People
"If I'm driving to L.A. and have anxiety about making the drive, if I've got Peggy with me, we're cool."
Anxiety
"When I sang that song, I felt it was almost as if some force had moved into my body. Things like that have only happened to me singing jazz. It doesn't happen when singing pop. I get so deeply into the music, it feels like I've become someone else."
Music
"It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense."
Jazz
"Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late."
Time
"The month of September is Women in Jazz, so I'm doing jazz there in September. I'm in for the duration."
Woman
"I choose things by how they resonate in my heart."
Heart
"You know, I'm pretty much an open book."
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