"I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s."

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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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"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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"My uncle was the town drunk - and we lived in Chicago."

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"I've always wanted to do theater in Chicago. Chicago is a big theater town-and, in some ways, I think this city is savvier and smarter than New York. Sometimes, I think it's a little too chic to go to theater in New York these days."

Jeffrey Donovan, American Actor

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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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"A Chicago alderman once confessed he needed physical exercise but didn't like jogging, because in that sport you couldn't hit anyone."

Andrew H. Malcolm, American Journalist

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"After that, I started going downtown and doing a lot of theater shows in Chicago. When you go downtown there, it's like you're in New York, it's like going to Broadway."

Kel Mitchell, American Actor

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"When I got to Chicago I had to find my way."

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"Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid."

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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."

"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."

"My uncle was the town drunk - and we lived in Chicago."

"I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago."

"I've always wanted to do theater in Chicago. Chicago is a big theater town-and, in some ways, I think this city is savvier and smarter than New York. Sometimes, I think it's a little too chic to go to theater in New York these days."

"In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side."

"A Chicago alderman once confessed he needed physical exercise but didn't like jogging, because in that sport you couldn't hit anyone."

"After that, I started going downtown and doing a lot of theater shows in Chicago. When you go downtown there, it's like you're in New York, it's like going to Broadway."

"When I got to Chicago I had to find my way."

"Chicago - a pompous Milwaukee."

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"So I always figured I'd still be playing at this age."

"Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general."

"I feel honored to have been a part of that dramatic change."

"Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things."

"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."

"Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind."

"Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid."

"Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating."

"I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano."

"Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G."