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"I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me."
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"In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all I wanted to do was play the blues."
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"We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion."

"Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure."

"A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary."

"Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything."

"I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back."

"I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is."

"I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars."
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