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"My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician."
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"My biggest musical influences are probably my parents."
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"For a while we lived in a tent we'd pitched inside his parents' house and we slept on pillows."
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"The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world."
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"My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants."
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"Grilling outside with my parents at the Jersey shore. We would grill lobster and corn in the summer."
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"My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician."
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"I have parents come up to me and say, 'I don't know who you are, but my kid wants his picture taken with you.'"
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"My parents were so poor when I was a kid, I never went anywhere. I take our youngsters with us because I don't know anything that teaches them so much."
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"I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio."
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"I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents."
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"My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician."
Parents
"Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians."
Jazz
"And if I have a strong point, it's that I like to believe it's not cheap or schmaltzy sentimentality."
Sentimentality
"Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden!"
Being
"My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine."
Father
"You can be in Tokyo or Alberta at four in the morning in your hotel and you can still practice if you feel like it. A trombone cannot do that at four in the morning."
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