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The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.


Robert Burton

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LANCE BURTON Harry Collins was the first magician I ever saw back in 1965 when I was five years old. He was doing...
LANCE BURTON We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic b...
LANCE BURTON I feel like I'm the luckiest person alive. I'm always waiting for that phone call: 'Hell...
LANCE BURTON When I went to Warner Bros., there was a woman named Bonnie Lee who was an executive who helped me t...
TIM BURTON What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of th...
BURTON RASCOE I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quarte...
GARY BURTON I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played...
GARY BURTON I was surprised when I finally moved to Boston and the East Coast, to discover that there weren'...
GARY BURTON I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no ot...
GARY BURTON I've made more than 50 records with a wide range of music. I've often veered to check someth...
GARY BURTON It keeps me in touch with younger musicians who are constantly saying, 'Have you heard this new ...
GARY BURTON I think I always have been someone who likes to push at the edges of things, looking for something d...
GARY BURTON I've discovered all kinds of music and done all kinds of music over the past 40 years, from play...
GARY BURTON I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we...
GARY BURTON Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on thei...
GARY BURTON There are a few things that I will hopefully be credited for as a pioneer. One is my four-mallet pla...
GARY BURTON It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough...
GARY BURTON But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, there's a huge range of dynam...
GARY BURTON Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvisi...
GARY BURTON