It sure is a nice feeling to know that people will remember you after you're gone, that you'll manage to be a little bit of history.
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You simply have to love show business to make the risk worthwhile.
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I just get onstage and sing. I don't think about how I'm going to do it - it's too complicated.
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What was the competition? Well, I remember this Puerto Rican who came out in a short skirt and a gun.
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I just quit in the third year of high school and started singing at amateur hours.
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You have to have a little soul in your singing. The kind of soul that's in the spirituals. That's why I'd like to include spiritual material in the sets I do. It's a part of my life.
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I guess the only trouble was that George was very slow in getting around to proposing. Several times, I almost proposed to him.
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The night I won at the Apollo, I was only doing it for the $10.