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"There isn't a dearth of it, but I will confess that it's harder for me to find songs on which I'm willing to invest anything from ten to fifteen hours writing an arrangement than it was in times past."
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"But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in."
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"Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film."
Father

"Buddy Rich is one of a kind; he's a genius, and that's all there is to it."
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"As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else."
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"It may sound a bit like an army barracks, but the truth of the matter is: there must be some time laid aside for arranging, time for working on either a book or an article - I've written two articles in the last four months for the New York Times book review section."
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"I was a singer professionally when I was four years old, and I did not really begin to play any instrument - the first one, of course, was drums - till I was about nine years old."
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"I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be."
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"As a singer, the biggest joy I have are the arrangements."
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"How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen."
Time

"Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio."
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"Your past does not define you, your present does."
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"Don't be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing chapters that you have read."
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"Maybe, it is easier to forget the past,than to overcome the pain caused by it.Maybe, it is one of some other reasons,why men forget their prehuman ancestor."
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"Don't be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing chapters."
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"The past is magnetic. It draws us in."
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"Reliving your painful past will poison your heart and your tomorrow."
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"It's kind of hard to outlive your past."
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"Your past is like a bag of bricks; set it down and walk away. Quit collecting every painful word, memory and mistake. Collect hope."
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"Not to be born is, past all prizing, best."
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"Past is aipsom if you learned from the past."
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