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"I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me."
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"I enjoy tennis, though don't play very often nowadays, and skiing... oh yes and swimming."

"Hey, pretty book, why don't you lie in my lap awhile?"

"But I'd play on everything from pop records to a lot of the glam stuff to rock stuff to classical stuff. I used to get called to do all those things, it was great."
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"Some of the onus falls on us to make ourselves available for the ball, because we need to play inside-out. That's when we're at our best."
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"There's another girl who was going to play Hilary Faye and luckily she wound up not doing it."
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"When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors."


"I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on."


"My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity."


"Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on."


"By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur."


"I don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do it."


"The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those who felt strongly in 1890?"


"I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-largest pipe organ in New York State. I loved all the buttons and the gadgets. I've always been a gadget man."
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