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"My biggest musical influences are probably my parents."
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"My parents were very supportive. They went to every show. And they never told me not to do what I was doing."
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"I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal."
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"I like a very dark house, just black. I sit there and just think. Once I'm still and quiet inside, I'll begin. It's very personal; it has to be. One song may be Bach, the next blues, a song from TV, or a nursery rhyme or jazz piece."
"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."
"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."
"I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar."
"My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up."
"I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful."
"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."
"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."
"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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