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"I'm the only instrument that's got the words, so I've got to be able to get that across."
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"Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped!"

"Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight."

"I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels."

"We printed all the words out because otherwise nobody would be able to understand them."

"Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly."

"My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness."
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"When Bob came through Cincinnati, he wanted a girl singer to be on his show. There was a local contest, and my sister and I entered, but Bob said, Gee, I wouldn't break up the team."


"I'll keep working as long as I live because singing has taken on the feeling of joy that I had when I started, when my only responsibility was to sing well."


"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."


"I just would like to keep singing. As soon as I'm not singing well, I hope that I know it, so that I can get off the stage and leave what I have done. I hope I'll know, and if I don't, I hope somebody tells me."


"I loved downers, almost any kind. Loved the colors of them. Loved them yellow... I did. I would just have a bouquet in my hands at night."
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