"What is the point of singing wonderful lyrics if the audience can't understand what is being said or heard?"
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"Card players have a saying: "It's all right to play if you keep your eyes on the deck" - which is another way of saving, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.""
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"I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know."
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"I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them."
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"You've got to be on the ball from the minute you step out into that spotlight. You gotta know exactly what you're doing every second on that stage, otherwise the act goes right into the bathroom. It's all over. Good night."
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"Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent."
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"It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me."
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"I love all those girls the same as they love me. I get thousands of letters a week from girls who love me.... Every time I sing a song, I make love to them. I'm a boudoir singer."
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"I said to Mr. Pavarotti once ... a marvelous man and a great artist ... I said to him ... "Maestro, I'm having trouble closing out a note so that it's almost as thin as a butter knife ... finish it out quietly like that." I said, "I have trouble doing that. What do you think I should do?" He said, "Justa close up your mouth." That's all he said, and I fell on the floor. I thought he was gonna give me a dissertation."
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"If power doesn't mean that you have the opportunity to work with the people that you love , then you haven't really got any."
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"There are moments when it's too quiet. Particularly late at night or early in the mornings. That's when you know there's something lacking in your life. You just know."
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"Nothing anybody's said or written about me ever bothers me, except when it does."
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"Only sing - don't do cheap songs, don't do silly songs, just do, just do wonderful songs that are well-written."
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"I think that if you do the best you can in your life, you get your just reward. You sometimes give up a great deal to achieve a plane you're looking for. But if you find that it's important enough, then you do it. You have to decide. Even when you figure you've given up a great deal to get a small amount of something, the pain is only there for a short time. It really goes away. Whatever the quandary, it leaves you."
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"The reading of the song is vital. The written word is first always . . . first. Not belittling the music, but it really is a backdrop. To convey the meaning of a song you need to look at the lyric and understand it."
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"A friend is never an imposition."
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"I'm just a singer, Elvis was the embodiment of the whole American culture."
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"I play to all people - all colors, all creeds ~ drunk, sober, everybody."
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"With few exceptions, every major pop singer in the US during her generation has been touched in some way by her genius. It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me. Lady Day is unquestionably the most important influence on American popular singing in the last twenty years."
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"It took me a long, long time to learn what I now know, and I don't want that to die with me."
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