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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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"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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"He must not laugh at his own wheeze: a snuff box has no right to sneeze."
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"The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can't get it back; it's bald in the back of the head and never turns around."
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"Your gut is always right."
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"The album was very agressive. It kicks you right in the balls."
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"I'm going to try to pull a Natalie Portman. Natalie went to Harvard while shooting 'Star Wars'. I don't know how she did it. I want to have lunch with her and ask her - that seems like a bunch of stress right there."
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"To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it."
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"You can't sing about love unless you know about it."
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"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."
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"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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"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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"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."
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"I was still in school at the time and Cab was very popular and everybody was doing Cab Calloway so I did."
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"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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"When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music, your horn is down into the stand. This way, it's up and it goes right on out to the audience, you know?"
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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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"As a matter of fact they'd blacken us down. I guess there's a reason that according to what the Caucasian wanted us to look like. He wanted us to look-if we were Black, then he had his idea of what we look like."
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