"Whatever you do big or small, do it well or don't do it at all."
"When I was a young man, I shined the shoes of Louis Armstrong and Louis Jordan! Music was just everywhere like that. And in my family, everyone could play something, and if they couldnt play, they could sing."
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Source: Twitter post from Jun 24, 2011
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"Keep what you've got till you get what you need, y'all. You gotta give a lot just to get what you need sometimes, y'all."
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