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Bernie Worrell

"My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist."

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"My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist."

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Amber Hurdle

"I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father."

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"My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing."

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"Madlen came to sit beside her on the bed. "Lady Queen," she said with her own particular brand of rough gentleness. "It is not the job of the child to protect her mother. It's the mother's job to protect the child. By allowing your mother to protect you, you gave her a gift. Do you understand me?"

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Amber Hurdle

"She was a genius, my mother."

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"I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers."

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Amber Hurdle

"If I were like your mother, I would be a woman."

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"I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done."

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"Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before."

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Amber Hurdle

"My mother had lots and lots of children who didn't survive."

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"I think that the old Mothers started that trend of rehearsing long hours. We went as long as the later bands did except we didn't get paid for it like they did."

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"I don't listen to a lot of radio today. It's not really music to me."
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"I talk by playing, not by words."
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"The radios are going to dictate. That's another fight. That's another story there. I wish they just let it be."
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"People like my voice and say I can sing, but I don't like microphones in front of my face: it distracts me."
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"We used to have a main female vocalist. But she had a baby. Now we do the singing ourselves."
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"Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts."
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"As far as arrangements after the basic track is cut, if I'm writing a horn arrangement or playing strings, I might arrange that, plan that out. Other times, I'll just sit and roll tape."
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"You can be enticed by food, wooed by food, sex, money, or instruments."
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