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"My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything."
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"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."
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"The longest tenured First LOVE and Greatest TEACHER, in-fact life long, is none the other, but Mother."
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"We never got anything out of the recordings. I'm still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers."
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"I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road."
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"I don't know how Frank presented the old Mothers, since I never read the book. There might be some opinions on what he said, but I - or anyone else - could not make any corrections to anything Frank did."
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"I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible."
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"Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel."
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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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"When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll."
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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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"One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside."
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"Well, I make every song I sing personal. I've never chosen a song that wasn't."
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"No, because I was always nervous about being onstage."
Being
"I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing."
Music
"Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music."
Music
"Well, I tried to get a record deal in 1966 or '67, and everyone thought I was too eclectic."
Thought
"I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves."
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"I always think it's interesting to dig a little bit deeper every time you go to someplace that seems like a revelation or a strong connection to an emotional truth."
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"We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure."
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"I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack."
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