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"I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different."
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"So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be."
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"The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it."
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"I moved to New York from California when I was 11, so initially I was seen as the California person for a while. I didn't feel like I was popular, but I did feel confident."
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"I don't use the twang bar anymore. It's become too popular."
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"I felt a responsibility to present a viable alternative to the popular electric sound."
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"Everything popular is wrong."
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"I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick."
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"I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular."
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"But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in."
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"I attend surprisingly few shows. The type of theater that is popular today just doesn't appeal to me."
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"The young people look great on television. They're youthful and have a lot of zip and energy, but when you see them live, they can only do about 20 minutes because they haven't got the training to hold an audience for an hour and a half or so."
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"To work is to feel alive."
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"I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today."
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"I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different."
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"I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world."
American
"I've been so fortunate because I never really had ups and downs as far as my career. Ninety-nine percent of the time, I've been sold out all over the world."
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"I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out and sing. In my job I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing."
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"More than anybody else I'd like to thank Count Basie for teaching me how to perform."
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