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"I like a very dark house, just black. I sit there and just think. Once I'm still and quiet inside, I'll begin. It's very personal; it has to be. One song may be Bach, the next blues, a song from TV, or a nursery rhyme or jazz piece."

"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."

"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."

"I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar."

"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."

"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."

"Then I left that school and I went to Cerritos College, which was in southern California; they had one of the best big band programs in the country at the time."
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