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"Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra - besides singing in the college chorus and things like that."
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"It's not that I don't love the song. My songs are like my children: some you want around and some you want to send off to college as soon as possible."
Love

"The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts."
People

"When I'm on stage by myself, I don't have to think about anything. I don't have to worry about anything because I'm not responsible for anything except just opening my mouth and making sure music comes out."
Music

"Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order to be really happy fulfilled adults."
Children

"Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time."
Home

"Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra - besides singing in the college chorus and things like that."
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"My biggest musical influences are probably my parents."
Parents

"I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories."
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"But, if there's any aspect of my career that needs attention, it's writing."
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"I don't want anything to get in the way of me and my singing. I want my mind as clear as possible."
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"On the first day of a college you will worry about how will you do inside the college? and at the last day of a college you will wonder what will you do outside the college?"
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"I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade."
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"Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions."
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"When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the theater department, and he encouraged me to take some classes there, which I did."
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"But I went to high school in a Portland suburb and went to college here."
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"I didn't go to college, I went straight from high school to working on I'll Fly Away, I was very, very lucky."
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"I think going to college for that one year was probable the best thing I have ever done."
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"I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law."
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"In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises."
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"Pell grants are the foundation of Federal student aid. As someone who attended college with the help of Pell grants and as chairman of the Pell Grant Caucus, I know how important they are for our Nation's low-income students."
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