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"Back then I thought if you cut a record, you were automatically a star."
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"I guess the nicest thing about being, I won't say famous but being popular is a more proper word for me to use would be that if you've got a recognizable name, a lot of times you can get people to do things for you ordinarily that you wouldn't get done."

"I try to stay ahead of things, if you know what I mean. I take the money I make and reinvest it."

"When a record co. finds a guy now, they want to own everything. They want to own the rights to market that person's particular name. They want a piece of the action all the way through."

"It's the same with the ballplayers. Babe Ruth spent a lot, too and the ballplayers make a lot more money now."

"I had some airline stock, but the airlines tanked. I didn't have a lot of money in them, though."

"I've grown up with my audience; they're my age or older. Not a lot of kids are coming to see me."

"So I'm trying to spread myself to the point to where I can do the night shows and not have to worry about the matinees, and do one or two matinees down through the year."

"'Cause I can make more money going in and doing my recordings and selling them through my entities that I have, rather than going to a record co. and them release a record and pay me 5 percent of what they make off it."
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