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"Most performers spend half their earnings taking care of family members."
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"Our family, from day one, has only sought the simple truth in this matter."
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"And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things."
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"I'd be a liar if I said I had a normal family."
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"Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family."
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"I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking."
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"Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them."
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"It has not been an easy cross to bear. It has caused considerable confusion. My husband constantly complained about the awkwardness of being married to a woman whom he called Sister."
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"Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical."
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"Do not forget you mother, when she is old."
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"The study of music was a family interest."
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"The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner."
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"I still marvel at how God turns dreams into reality."
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"I have always thought music as a way out of the ordinary mundane obligations of life."
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"A large family makes you accept sharing your parents."
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"Most performers spend half their earnings taking care of family members."
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"You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too."
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"There are times in show business when you work so much you think you will pop your cork, and then suddenly you can't find any work."
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"Detroit is full of talent."
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"Good and bad - this is the story of my life."
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"God uses singers in a mighty way, and I am grateful."
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