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"My parents didn't treat me as if there was anything in the world I couldn't do, except be unkind."
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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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"Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication."
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"When a child is bruised physically or emotionally, parents often reward him with a treat."
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"Usually I'll go to San Diego to hang out with my parents if I want to unwind."
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"My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma."
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"A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone."
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"Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again."
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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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"We had to be parents by long distance, which is far from satisfactory."
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"My parents didn't treat me as if there was anything in the world I couldn't do, except be unkind."
Parents
"Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument."
Taste
"If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me."
Leader
"I don't have the inclinations that other people seem to have as far as the business is concerned."
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"My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant."
Brother
"Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women."
Men
"Most of the younger people I knew didn't seem to have a handle on things; they hadn't found their place, they didn't understand how the world works, they didn't understand how to treat other people, and they didn't know how to stop thinking about themselves."
People
"I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why don't you show them good music instead? They're not going to know the difference."
Music
"To do it nationally or internationally, you have to follow a few more rules."
Rules
"You have to follow every melodic line, every emotional idea, or you don't get your money's worth."
Money
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