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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."

"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."

"Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually."

"Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."
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"Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play."

"We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour."

"The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that."

"You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz."

"I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea."

"I don't do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn't care less. If it sells one, it sells one."
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