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“... Geniuses have a little extra something. There's that little something that you know is a little different.”

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Piano should be the one. Yeah, because that's your basis. Everything is right there in front of you.

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I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last.

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My youngest daughter sings. She's going to be very good. She's graduated from Music School and she's been working down around and getting her…

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When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music, your horn is down…

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I'm used to hearing myself. My own voice.

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When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music, your horn is down…

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As a matter of fact they'd blacken us down. I guess there's a reason that according to what the Caucasian wanted us to look…

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I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business so everything was bright to me. I mean, I didn't think of…

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You can't sing about love unless you know about it.

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I just went to Harvard a little while, because I graduated from Armstrong High School in Washington and then I went up there but…

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If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such,…

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My view is that you cannot close your mind and say I don't want to listen to this or that. Because if you can't…

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