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"In short, Luck's always to blame."
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"Neither blame or praise yourself."
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"It's very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn't there. And I don't blame the Gershwins for taking it away. Of course, if they had gotten the original company to have done it, it would have been very good."
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"I wish I could blame it on the choreography, but it's not a musical. I just had a clumsy moment."
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"If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees."
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"The devil is the reason for all the problems we have in the society."
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"That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery."
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"Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid."
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"Maybe it ain't about others' mistakes,but only your need for someone to blame."
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"There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row."
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"Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive."
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"But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know... I don't believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around."
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"I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel."
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"I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane."
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"And the whole thing is that you're treated like a step-child. Here it was down here, everything in the black, because they were stealing, basically. Stealing from us old country boys down here."
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"Because Ritchie Valens WAS the real deal. He was only starting, but in the time he spent in the business, he made big impact. I don't know if anybody could have made a bigger one."
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"You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins' name on your record as a producer and it was on RCA, you could work the road. It didn't have to be a big hit record, it just had to have that on it."
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"We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective."
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"Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it."
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"Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records."
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