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"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."
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"This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway."
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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
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"Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth."
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"And of course there's so much music in and around our family. I had a piano during Christmas because it's obviously useful through the season. There are so many people, songwriters, who are around."
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"I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition."
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"Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music."
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"It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard "Heartbreak Hotel" I thought, this is it."
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"I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise."
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"I was about sixteen when I discovered that music could get you laid, so I got into music boy, didn't matter what you looked like either, you could be a geeky looking guy but if you played music, whoa, you'd get the girls."
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"I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist."
African
"The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear."
Fear
"I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money."
Business
"Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking."
People
"You've got to change with the public's taste."
Change
"Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping."
Music
"Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work."
Education
"For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death."
Death
"The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it."
Music
"I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy."
Day
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