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If you want to do something, you do it anyway, and handle the obstacles as they come.

One way or the other, if you want to find reasons why you shouldn't keep on, you'll find 'em. The obstacles are all there; there are a million of 'em.

If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice.

You have to look good.

Creativity grows out of two things: curiosity & imagination.

Some of the overflow audience actually sat on the stage.

If I have something I want to do, I make a business of doing it.

Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.

Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.

It takes the black keys and the white keys both, to make perfect harmony.

After you've done all the work and prepared as much as you can, what the hell, you might as well go out and have a good time.

People have often said to me, 'You're so relaxed when you play.' Relaxed my elbow. It's practice.