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"I think that unless you grew up in New York or Chicago or Los Angeles, you're sheltered."
"I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s."
"After that, I started going downtown and doing a lot of theater shows in Chicago. When you go downtown there, it's like you're in New York, it's like going to Broadway."
"A Chicago alderman once confessed he needed physical exercise but didn't like jogging, because in that sport you couldn't hit anyone."
"I was asked to come to Chicago because Chicago is one of our fifty-two states."
"I've always wanted to do theater in Chicago. Chicago is a big theater town-and, in some ways, I think this city is savvier and smarter than New York. Sometimes, I think it's a little too chic to go to theater in New York these days."
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"Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power."
"But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn't be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars; music's got these bars and measures you know."
"The world is in such a bad condition that if they don't find what you call a redeemer, every man, woman and child on this planet will be eliminated."
"It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay out in the street."
"I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos."
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