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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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"Seriousness is stupidity sent to college."
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"I majored in geology in college but have majored in Herbert Hoover ever since."
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"That's when we was makin this video stuff. They went all over the place makin it. And they was wantin to know, at the college, how I got started playin and how do I do everything - you know, all that."
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"I'm like a bunch of college guys who got together and said, 'Let's make a dude, a crazy dude'."
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"I wanted to go to a good college, and my mind was set on Wellesley."
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"The most frequent complaint I hear from college students is that professors inject their leftist political comments into their courses even when they have nothing to do with the subject."
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"From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford."
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"In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare."
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"I started college Pre-Med. That lasted about half a semester."
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"The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts."
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"I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music."
Music
"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."
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"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
"But, if there's any aspect of my career that needs attention, it's writing."
Attention
"The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts."
People
"Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints."
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"I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories."
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"I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful."
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"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."
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"I did the one concert, and I was not bitten by the conducting bug, and I thought I was done, but then the phone started to ring, and gradually, over time, I started conducting more and more. Now a third of my performances are with orchestras."
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