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"But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in."
Popular
"Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film."
Father
"As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else."
Feelings
"I was a singer professionally when I was four years old, and I did not really begin to play any instrument - the first one, of course, was drums - till I was about nine years old."
First
"As a singer, the biggest joy I have are the arrangements."
Joy
"How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen."
Time
"Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio."
Chicago
"Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two."
Career
"So I'm sorry, I'm going to continue to talk to the people, because I do believe that if they get to know you and what you are as a human being, they can more appreciate what you are as a performer."
People
"I want to sing for the broadest possible audience."
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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 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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"Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world."
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