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Jay McShann

"We had an old Victrola with the old bulldog they used to have there. The horn would come out."

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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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"Every old poem is sacred."

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"No one knows if Saddam is still alive. They keep showing old footage of him on TV saying that it's live. You know, it's like the same thing we do with Dick Cheney."

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"If you listen to a lot of old funk records, the drums are really small. But you don't perceive it like that because the groove is so heavy."

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"To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old."

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"We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing."

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"I'm 37 years old and don't have a steady paycheck."

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"It occurred to me, when I was old enough to make rules of my own, that they should be fair and simple."

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"I was watching Monster's Ball, which is a fabulous movie. It's just a little gem: beautifully shot, and shot in a way I never would have done. It made me feel very old, really, because it wasn't eccentric for its own sake, it was just very original."

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"Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are."

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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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