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"Piano should be the one. Yeah, because that's your basis. Everything is right there in front of you."
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"I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right."

"I grew up in Danville, Illinois, right in the middle of the state."

"I earned the right to get in the team, and fought every game to be in it."

"If I feel the part is right, and I know that the producers and the director want me, I'd go for broke. Always."

"I wish I were supernaturally strong so I could put right everything that is wrong."

"We all think we are right, or we should not believe as we do."

"What's right is what's left if you do everything else wrong."

"There's not much in the way of written-down arrangements - just things that Gerry and I have worked out, from playing spontaneously together and hanging on to whatever seems to fall in right."
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"It was my band. I organized the band and Dizzy was in the band. Dizzy was the first musical director with the band. Charlie Parker was in the band. But, no, no, that was my band."

"I think a song that's got something to say. I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last. But I like a song that tells a story and has some meat to it, you know, that means something."

"I just went to Harvard a little while, because I graduated from Armstrong High School in Washington and then I went up there but I didn't stay that long because I went into show business."

"Today the kids that are out now they make a hit record and they put them right out on the stage with 10,000 people out there and they don't know anything about the business yet."

"Oh, yeah. I know Dizzy. For years he's been my buddy way, way, way back. Dizzy is one of the most astute guys and one of the most learned guys in the world and knows exactly what he's doing musically."

"You know, times change and the elements change along with it. The elements of success. And my son's very successful. He's doing very well. And I have a younger daughter who sings."

"I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business so everything was bright to me. I mean, I didn't think of it as being tough and things like that."
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