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	His act may start out slow, but it tapers off.   
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	I just had an idea that went right over my head.   
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	Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor.   
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	The ones the listeners loved most of all in those early years were the four Lennon girls who became the whole nation's little sisters.   
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	The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born.   
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	Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.   
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	I have a tremendous desire to learn, and to grow, and to develop whatever I have that will make for any kind of improvement in me.   
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	Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.   
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	I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.   
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	There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.   
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	I knew nothing of the real life of a musician, but I seemed to see myself standing in front of great crowds of people, playing my accordion.   
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	It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.   
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	Many times I wondered if I were truly carrying out God's plan for my life.   
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	One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.   
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	One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.   
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	By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.   
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	The first time I try anything is invariably not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.   
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	If I live to be 90, and I'm planning to, I'll always love performing for a live audience.   
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	I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.   
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	If any performer has quality in his voice he can almost always be helped to develop all the other necessary attributes.   
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	I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished yet.   
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	Sounds always fascinated me.   
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	You know, it's a long world.   
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	Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.   
