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Carly Simon

"But when we listened to the radio, it was Bill Haley and the Comets or the Everly Brothers."

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"But when we listened to the radio, it was Bill Haley and the Comets or the Everly Brothers."

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"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."

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"I had sort of exhausted all the avenues playing in Detroit. So again, through the stewardship of my brother, I ended up in California and went to the Musicians Institute in L.A. I wanted to get better as a player."

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"Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning."

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"I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison."

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"The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory."

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"I remember that I used to mix with my friends who had brothers and sisters. I was an only child."

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"Rock 'n' roll offered me a platform to speak what I felt. It also offered me a platform to support my mama and my brothers and sisters - twelve children."

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"We all remember where we were and we all remember what we were doing. I had a brother in New York, an uncle, lots of friends in New York. It made me angry, it made me sad; what could I do."

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"My brother was always in bands and on the road when I was a kid and he was my inspiration. He never made it with a big band, in fact he never made a record. Here he is fifty-something years old."

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"My career at Warner Brothers consisted of one musical short subject. I was running around in a bear skin. Very chic."

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