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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 think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano."
Love
"Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating."
Talking
"I feel honored to have been a part of that dramatic change."
Change
"I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s."
Chicago
"Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God."
God
"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
"Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid."
Feelings
"So I always figured I'd still be playing at this age."
Age
"Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general."
Musicians
"Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind."
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"Chicago is a city of contradictions, of private visions haphazardly overlaid and linked together."
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"You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner."
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"I was born in Chicago and grew up in the suburb of Evanston."
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"I was asked to come to Chicago because Chicago is one of our fifty-two states."
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"I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!"
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"I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago."
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"My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's."
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"Mahalia Jackson, I grew up around the corner from in Chicago."
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"Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring."
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"A Chicago alderman once confessed he needed physical exercise but didn't like jogging, because in that sport you couldn't hit anyone."
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