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"I've always wanted to be a real universal artist, one that every type of audience could relate to."

"A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production."

"I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No. 1. I'm a new artist; I don't know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn't happen."

"Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain."

"Negroes at last were on Broadway, and there to stay. We were artists and we were going a long way."
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"The world is full of musicians who can play great, and you wouldn't cross the road to see them. It's people who have this indefinable attitude that are the good ones."

"I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio."

"I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches."

"I suppose I was waiting until I was old enough to have some sort of experience to sing about. When you're young, it's hard to sing the blues. Nobody believes you."

"All those years we'd spent learning these chops, and all those gigs in Germany where you'd play all night, and along comes punk. It has nothing to do with that. A lot of people went out of business."

"If a hit came along, I wouldn't be unhappy about that. But I'm a bit too old for that now-doing videos and all those types of TV shows. I've kind of done all that, in the '70s."

"They tell me I produced songs. I just stood in the back, wore a good suit and said, Yeah, that's happening."
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