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"The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born."
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"A song is anything that can walk by itself."
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"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."
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"All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago."
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"This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway."
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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
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"Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth."
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"A tapping foot isn't the best a listener can get from a song: A good song makes a listener dance. A great song makes him think."
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"Music has always gotten me through life, particularly honest, real music."
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"I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible."
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"I don't use old music."
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"I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places."
Forget
"It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair."
Act
"The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born."
Music
"This is the best biography by me I have ever read."
Biography
"If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come."
Faith
"I have a tremendous desire to learn, and to grow, and to develop whatever I have that will make for any kind of improvement in me."
Desire
"Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns."
Famous
"I was so anxious to succeed that I made a practice of appearing on all the disc jockey shows I could, in order to publicize the band."
Order
"My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know."
Conversation
"I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly."
Life
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