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"A child prodigy is one with highly imaginative parents."
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"We're all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent."
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"Your gift is what you were created to be."
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"There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail."
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Personal Development
"When you find out the field you were gifted, what you were created for, you will get guaranteed success."
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"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."
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"Talent is the seed, success is the fruit."
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"I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."
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"A talent is no talent, unless it is used for the benefit of other people."
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"With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy."
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"I'm concerned with trend. I don't know where jazz fans will come from 20 years from now."
Fans
"If you look at my audiences, even in Europe, they're hardly teenagers."
Audience
"My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business."
Business
"As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy."
People
"You will always find a few people in any area that would like things done completely their way."
People
"I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it."
Art
"I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan."
Jazz
"Amsterdam must have more than a million people. But the only area where jazz is really profitable and successful in an economic sense is in Japan. That's because they haven't been exposed enough."
People
"There are very few groups that really stay together. The leaders of groups make enough money to be able to afford to work a maximum of 35-40 weeks a year."
Money
"The economic picture in the States today doesn't allow for jazz concerts in a tour fashion. People now are too used to the Festival, which gives them more names for the same price."
People
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