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"I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s."
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"In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side."
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"I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s."
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"I've never been arrested. I've been stopped, searched and had a gun put to my head by the Chicago cops."
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"Chicago is a city of contradictions, of private visions haphazardly overlaid and linked together."
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"In 1980, I moved to Chicago, and I recorded demo tapes for my friends' bands, and in 1981, the first Big Black record - the first thing I did that was an actual record."
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"And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets."
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"My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here."
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"I was born in Chicago and grew up in the suburb of Evanston."
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"Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio."
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"I was knocked out by the show, Chicago."
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"I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s."
Chicago
"Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind."
Gratitude
"Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general."
Musicians
"So I always figured I'd still be playing at this age."
Age
"I feel honored to have been a part of that dramatic change."
Change
"Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God."
God
"Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating."
Talking
"Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond rings on her hands."
Music
"I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano."
Love
"Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G."
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