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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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"It's marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last."
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"I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird."
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"I was surprised that the TV series was popular itself, but after that it went on to become more popular over the years and thus it seemed eventually that they would turn it into a movie."
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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 felt a responsibility to present a viable alternative to the popular electric sound."
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"The way I see it, all the popular singers are strippers."
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"What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right."
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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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"Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today."
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"My skin is more beautiful than yours. I would be quite more popular in jail if I so chose."
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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."
Business
"I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world."
American
"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."
Life
"More than anybody else I'd like to thank Count Basie for teaching me how to perform."
Teaching
"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."
Time
"To work is to feel alive."
Work
"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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"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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