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I don’t want to play myself up as a hero, because it would make me unbelievable. I’d rather settle for people thinking that I’m a bum, but digging my stories, than liking me and not being able to believe in my stories. That’s one reason I’ve been hard on myself, because I want my stuff to be believable.

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I was 16 years old, and I was just flailing around, looking for an interest. I heard, you know, these jazz records. They were modern records, at the time in the ’50s, and I realized that I didn’t fully get what was going on. But I liked a lot of what I heard.

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I was 16 years old, and I was just flailing around, looking for an interest. I heard, you know, these jazz records. They were modern records, at the time in the ’50s, and I realized that I didn’t fully get what was going on. But I liked a lot of what I heard.

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