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" If you start to dwell on your pain, the amount of pain will increase. "

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" You don't show respect to Frank Sinatra and his great example by trying to sound exactly like him. You show it by sounding exactly like you, and that's the way jazz has always progressed as an art form. "

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" My goal is to be really incredible by the time I'm 70. "

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