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"So it's mix and match. Hold your line when you really feel something you're saying is wonderful and you really want to get this point across and prove it to your partner by just throwing it into the tape and letting it speak for itself."
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"I remember Mitch Miller saying every week, This rock and roll stuff will never last. But one doesn't like to bring that up to Mitch."
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"Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars."
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"Well, as I was saying... everyone's so nice to me, usually."
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"You cannot have your cake and eat it."
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"Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just."
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"Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial."
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"Everyone has highs and lows that they have to learn from, but every morning I start off with a good head on my shoulders, saying to myself, 'It's going to be a good day!'."
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"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
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"There's a saying among prospectors: 'Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find.'"
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"If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done."
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"We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to feel something for that and there's going to be a real appreciation."
Appreciation
"I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out."
Architecture
"I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it."
Teaching
"So it's mix and match. Hold your line when you really feel something you're saying is wonderful and you really want to get this point across and prove it to your partner by just throwing it into the tape and letting it speak for itself."
Saying
"I would start seeing, in just the sense I was saying now, the kind of record it was going to be and what the arrangement demands, and what my vocal part should be in the record. This was all emerging as the song was emerging."
Now
"When Paul and I were first friends, starting in the sixth grade and seventh grade, we would sing a little together and we would make up radio shows and become disc jockeys on our home wire recorder. And then came rock and roll."
Home
"We'd go to the fraternity house. It was a good place to practice. But we really wanted the kids to overhear us. And whoever heard us would go nuts over it."
Kids
"Paul is a very creative artist but I'm more that thorough, meticulous, disciplined nut."
Artist
"I like working solo and it was a lot of fun joking around with the audience, saying things. I'm only just learning how to do certain things."
Fun
"Rodgers and Hammerstein didn't mean anything to me. I just wanted to have a hit, I just wanted to be like those people on the radio. It was all of a case of the present tense with no projecting into the future, particularly."
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