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"I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country."
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"There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience."
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"I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect."
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"I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower."
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"The Secret Service is a strange group. They don't really have a leader. It's not set up like a military. Each one is supposed to be able to act like a leader when something comes up."
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"Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks."
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"But I do think the survey group - and I think Charlie Duelfer is a great leader. I have the utmost confidence in Charles. I think you will get as full an answer as you can possibly get."
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"Arizona is a national leader in school choice with both charter schools and tuition tax credits giving parents and their children more school choices than ever before."
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"If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me."
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"I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right."
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"I had found English audiences highly satisfactory. They are the best listeners in the world. Perhaps the music-lovers of some of our larger cities equal the English, but I do not believe they can be surpassed in that respect."
Music
"Sincere composers believe in God."
God
"Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius."
Genius
"I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher."
Progress
"I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country."
Leader
"From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else."
Music
"America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people."
People
"Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing."
Music
"No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts."
Power
"There is one thing that freezes a musician more than the deadliest physical cold, and that is the spiritual chill of an unresponsive audience!"
Spiritual
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