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"My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation of sort of an island traditional melody. It did become sort of my trademark tune."
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"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."
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"I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her."
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"When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else."
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"My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I'm quite a loving person and I've always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I'm very interested in other people, and if you are, they're interested in you."
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"I was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother. I had this vision of all these animals sitting behind bars. They had no control and were scared. That's why I got into fostering and adopting animals out."
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"I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I don't know how my mother did it."
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"The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart."
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"But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome."
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"A mother's love is more beautiful than any fresh flower."
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"I just cleared the slate and thought of her as a mother and went from there."
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"There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25."
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"But if I didn't have to make money, I would still play my horn."
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"I feel that L.A. has not always been my strongest base for support. That can be for various reasons."
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"I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid."
Music
"I enjoy playing clubs. I still enjoy the closeness of the nightclub venue. However, after a certain period of time and after playing around some of the clubs in New YorkI felt that jazz should be presented in a more prestigious atmosphere."
Time
"My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation of sort of an island traditional melody. It did become sort of my trademark tune."
Mother
"Jazz has an audience all around the globe and has had for many decades, I think speaking of the United States, let's say that what we need is more of an official recognition."
Jazz
"I think we are in the midst of this period where we are committing this suicide on the planet and everybody is just using up all of our natural resources like a bunch of insane people. That's what I worry about more than I worry about jazz."
People
"It's all about creation and surprise. It just needs to be appreciated and watered like flowers. You have to water flowers. These peaks will come again."
Creation
"I have always been a person who is concerned with the dignity of jazz music and the way jazz musicians have been treated and are treated, and the fact that the music has not been given the kind of due that it deserves."
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