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"I been getting good crowds. It only took 50 years."
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"Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds."
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"Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There's still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile."
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"We had several hits in the States but probably only one big one in Europe. The crowds are smaller."
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"The crowds can be very loud, especially when you're playing in the evening."
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"I get very anxious and am scared in crowds and things like that."
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"We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows."
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"I been getting good crowds. It only took 50 years."
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"I think in New York we had respect and we would pretty much fill up the places where we went, but I never got the sense that we really were Number 1 here in New York among the Latin crowds."
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"I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known."
People
"There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end."
Time
"I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes."
Music
"All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues."
Jazz
"I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old."
Old
"But I got an audience that knows what I do. They usually show up, so I usually do pretty good."
Pretty
"Pizza Express has been a real godsend for me. I've been working there for several years, six weeks a year. You can go to work every night and play. It's a nice little club. It's just about the right size for me, about 150 people."
Work
"I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still one of my favorites. So a lot of these people had their effect on me."
People
"There's a few tunes of mine that don't have jokes, but most of them have a joke and they have a humorous point of view somewhere."
Jokes
"The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time."
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