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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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"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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"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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"Then I came up with this crazy idea just to walk out on the stage with no band at all and just start singing whatever came to mind. I actually fought the idea for a while because it seemed almost too radical, but it became obvious what I was supposed to be doing."
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"The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts."
People
"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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"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."
Children
"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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"I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music."
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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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"My biggest musical influences are probably my parents."
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"I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed."
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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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"With a recent birthday, I've been acting now for twenty years."
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"Mattresses! Beautiful! Let's go buy a couple of mattresses. Give 'em to people for their birthday."
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"I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos."
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"When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it's July 4th."
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"My son had his eighth birthday recently and we had a chance to borrow the film and show it to all of his friends that was at his birthday party and they loved it. I was a little nervous. I said they might not even like it, and say his daddy's movie is wack, but they loved it."
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"The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday."
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"The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him."
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"I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spoke back stage. The third time was at Brian Wilson's birthday party."
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