“I also met, early on Ella Fitzgerald. Her songbooks are some of the most amazing bodies of work.”
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I think there are a lot of people who really want to be famous, they really do. I don't. It sort of gets in the way of the everyday things that I do.
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It's just that some people are lucky and people still seem to enjoy the music.
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