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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…
• Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.
• I'm a very, very stubborn man.
• My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
• God has a way of telling you when to change your strings.
• One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years…
• Most blues don't have a beginning, middle, or end. You just cut a couple slices of blues.
• Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four…
• In the early 1970s. 1971, '72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren't signing acoustic acts any more. Although they had…
• Sometimes you have to forget your principles and do what’s right.
• By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway.
• I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.

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