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"As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs."
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"In our heads we're all about 33 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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"Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are."
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"That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other."
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"I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet."
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"New York lost a classic. Carmine was an old school New Yorker."
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"A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works."
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"Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television."
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"You just witnessed an old-fashioned rump kicking."
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"Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God."
God
"Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend."
Money
"My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals."
Money
"The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning; and today it is being fought out over his social recognition."
Soul
"It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character."
Music
"Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town."
Thought
"Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville."
Music
"She was my first love, and I loved her as only a boy loves."
Love
"As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs."
Old
"Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys' choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano voice. I enjoyed the singing very much."
Being
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