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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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"Even though you are on the right track - you will get run over if you just sit there."
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"If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it."
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"The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well."
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"Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable."
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"Some things you know about, you know what the ingredients are - maybe not all of them. But it's up to you to put in the amount. It's up to the director to nag you until you get it right."
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"Stand, you've been sitting much too long, there's a permanent crease in your right or wrong."
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"When I sing, trouble can sit right on my shoulder and I don't even notice."
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"It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right."
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"If you have to do it, then you're doing the right thing."
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"He must not laugh at his own wheeze: a snuff box has no right to sneeze."
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"If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music."
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"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."
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"You can't sing about love unless you know about it."
Love
"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."
Change
"My youngest daughter sings. She's going to be very good. She's graduated from Music School and she's been working down around and getting her feet wet, you know. I had her out with me for a year just showing her the ropes a little bit, but she's going to be all right."
Music
"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."
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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."
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"Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago."
God
"Piano should be the one. Yeah, because that's your basis. Everything is right there in front of you."
Right
"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."
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