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Well, that's the secret of commerciality, a simple style and you stick with it.

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In a sense, a hit belongs to the person who made it popular, but if a tune is good enough to attain tremendous success, then it certainly deserves more than one version, one treatment, one approach.

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I don't think the record company is aware of it. Because they just bury my albums and don't release them.

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That was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing.

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I did the Broadway album unfortunately in a year when there were no hits.

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You know, they wanted to do a Broadway album and every show was kind of a bomb. There was no music at all.

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I've been down there 6 times and there's nothing like Brazilian percussion.

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I don't know what the problem with Capitol is. Some one's got to wake 'em up. Prod 'em a little bit.

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I love doing concert music.

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I was working all the time I was in college. I was working so much that I could hardly do my college work.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: March 14th, 1922

Died: January 15th, 1996

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