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"I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing."
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"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."

"My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with."

"The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting."
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"I am continually embarrassed by people who point me out as an example of what can be done without training."


"I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth."


"As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York."


"I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung."


"In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them."


"If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story."
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