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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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"Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'."

"Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes."

"Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages."

"I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless."
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"I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels."

"I won't mention the word tired. This is the 20th century and I can go around a little faster."
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"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."


"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 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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