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"I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but to join the Navy, having left school at 13."
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"I joined the Navy hoping to be submariner and ended up in the sub service aboard a tender in the Pacific."
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"My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx."
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"No matter what happens, the U.S. Navy is not going to be caught napping."
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"My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard."
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"You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work."
Work
"If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience."
Living
"Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time."
Time
"If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I've ever seen was in that period of 1960 to 1965. All of sudden they were handing out major label recording contracts like they were coming in Cracker Jack boxes."
Truth
"I'm a very, very stubborn man."
Man
"I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician."
Jazz
"Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song."
Country
"If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count."
Family
"In the early 1970s. 1971, '72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren't signing acoustic acts any more. Although they had been pretty much been getting out of that for some time before that."
Time
"My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard."
Navy
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