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"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'm trying to get the record that I made at my birthday party last year, trying to get that out, and the lawyers are diddling around with it and it probably won't be out until next year. I don't know."
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"My best kiss was on stage. Kelly Rowland from Destiny's Child gave me a really nice soft kiss on my lips during a performance on my birthday. It was amazing."
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"Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same."
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"It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people."
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"You know, we'd just had a birthday, he was... you know, he still had a future out of him, and all I can is he was just one of the most beautiful people in the world... a very gifted man, and it's a loss to the world, not just for us."
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"For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out."
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"The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday."
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"One I built when I was a kid, and it was a real miniature of Disneyland. I fell in love with the park when I went there with my parents on my 12th birthday."
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"My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him."
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"In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame."
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"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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"I don't want anything to get in the way of me and my singing. I want my mind as clear as possible."
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"If I can bring joy into the world, if I can get people to stop thinking about their pain for a moment, or the fact the tomorrow morning they're going to get up and tell their boss off... then I'll be successful."
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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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"I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful."
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"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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"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."
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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."
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"The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts."
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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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