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Mickey Gilley

"So I'm trying to spread myself to the point to where I can do the night shows and not have to worry about the matinees, and do one or two matinees down through the year."

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"So I'm trying to spread myself to the point to where I can do the night shows and not have to worry about the matinees, and do one or two matinees down through the year."

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Mickey Gilley
"I've grown up with my audience; they're my age or older. Not a lot of kids are coming to see me."

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Mickey Gilley
"I guess the nicest thing about being, I won't say famous but being popular is a more proper word for me to use would be that if you've got a recognizable name, a lot of times you can get people to do things for you ordinarily that you wouldn't get done."

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Mickey Gilley
"'Cause I can make more money going in and doing my recordings and selling them through my entities that I have, rather than going to a record co. and them release a record and pay me 5 percent of what they make off it."

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Mickey Gilley
"When a record co. finds a guy now, they want to own everything. They want to own the rights to market that person's particular name. They want a piece of the action all the way through."

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Mickey Gilley
"There used to be a lot of acts, which was good, because people don't want to see the same act every night. But, you don't want too many acts, you don't want to over-saturate it."

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Mickey Gilley
"I try to stay ahead of things, if you know what I mean. I take the money I make and reinvest it."

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Mickey Gilley
"So I'm trying to spread myself to the point to where I can do the night shows and not have to worry about the matinees, and do one or two matinees down through the year."

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Mickey Gilley
"If you're not on a major label today, you're not gonna get played. They've got the market sewed up."

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Mickey Gilley
"My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year."

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"Well, I got people that help me with the restaurant. I don't have to be at the restaurant 24 hours a day."

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Aberjhani

"The night creeps in by subtle degrees while a show of fierce colors attracts and distracts me. I look up, suddenly aware of remote lights scattered overhead. I gasp as the last streak of fire dies on the horizon, and I comprehend it all too late. That crafty, dark night has swallowed my world whole."

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Aberjhani

"I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star."

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Aberjhani

"The night I announced I was getting married, Daddy paced for hours on the porch."

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Aberjhani

"I wasn't really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live - I'm not like an impressionist or anything."

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Aberjhani

"Making sleep happen is a must - anytime, anywhere, from a plane to a train to an automobile. Ideally, I like to get eight to ten hours a night, though I'll take it broken up in two segments if I have to."

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Aberjhani

"The one thing I could do was voices and impersonations and weird characters, and there was really no call for that, except on Saturday Night Live."

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Aberjhani

"I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I."

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Aberjhani

"Late night television is ready for someone like me... standards have gone to an all-time low."

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Aberjhani

"Yes, beef is what was for dinner last night. Tonight it will be my dinner, and it will continue to be."

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Aberjhani

"Most of those mocking us and our works night after night have not reached the point of suggesting we are going to use those weapons. They are pretty useless right now."

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