"I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear."
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"The silence sings. It is musical. I remember a night when it was audible. I heard the unspeakable."
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"You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them."
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"Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day."
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"I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc."
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"Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my favorites. Our neighbors must hate us."
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"Mozart died too late rather than too soon."
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"I really don't know whether any place contains more pianists than Paris, or whether you can find more asses and virtuosos anywhere."
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"I do an act, and I've been doing an act for 50 years. I do a variety show, which is a musical comedy show. I do comedy, and I do singing, Broadway show tunes and different songs that I like. Been doing it for many, many years."
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"Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it"
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"Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation... If one is to record one's life truthfully, one must aim at getting into the record of it something of the disorderly discontinuity which makes it so absurd, unpredictable, bearable."
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"You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax."
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"People who talk well but do nothing are like musical intruments; the sound is all they have to offer."
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"The harmonica is the world's best-selling musical instrument. You're welcome."
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"Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant."
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"Music is the electric soil in which the spirit thinks, lives and invents. All that's electrical stimulates the mind to flowing surging musical creation. I am electrical by nature."
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"The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It's a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don't know where I would be. It's indelible and indispensable."
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"Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world."
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"If you do a musical, it's really thrilling and it's a lot of work, but it's very rewarding. I would say, for me, what I like best is what I do, which is, I call it vaudeville, I call it live, I call it in concert, I call it what Bette Midler does, and what Garland did for years, and Ethel Merman."
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"I was the dork in high school who sang musical numbers up and down the hallways."
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