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"We had an old Victrola with the old bulldog they used to have there. The horn would come out."
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"You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub."
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"Old and young disbelieve one another's truths."
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"A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice."
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"I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system."
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"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
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"I think when I was two years old in the sandbox. I think I formulated my basic philosophy there, and I haven't really had to alter it very much ever since."
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"The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices."
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"In our heads we're all about 33 years old."
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"For all my criticisms of the current system, it doesn't mean that I would like to return to the old one."
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"If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old."
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"We didn't let a night go by that we didn't play."
Night
"I was listening to all those lyrics and trying to take in everything that was happening. I was completely excited. It was one of the greatest times that I had listening to music."
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"They had the music being piped right out on the street. I'd be three or four blocks from there and I couldn't get there fast enough because I'd hear old Joe holler them words."
Music
"We had an old Victrola with the old bulldog they used to have there. The horn would come out."
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"We used to play the Savoy Ballroom, and we always had a boogie tune in the set. Bands like Tommy Dorsey used to do a little boogie woogie. The big bands."
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"My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues."
Family
"It was my first time in Kansas City. In about two or three days I had a gig at a place called The Monroe Inn."
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"I had listened to Joe Turner. When they'd book Joe there, I'd play the blues behind him."
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