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"When a girl feels that she's perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That's charm."

"We're supposed to speak from the heart in what we wear. We have to find capsule wardrobes."

"Style is something that's extremely important, but it must grow naturally out of who and what you are and what the material calls for. It cannot be superimposed."

"Peter, of the three of us, was our prince. He seemed so timeless. He had such elan and style."

"I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am."

"The whole point in developing your own style is to find your own voice."
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"I don't do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn't care less. If it sells one, it sells one."

"I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea."

"I don't believe that a lot of the things I hear on the air today are going to be played for as long a time as Coleman Hawkins records or Brahms concertos."

"Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing."

"You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz."

"We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour."

"Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play."
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