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"My biggest musical influences are probably my parents."
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"My parents didn't really know one another."
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"My biggest musical influences are probably my parents."
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"When my parents separated, I was very grateful."
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"My parents always told me that if you want something, you can do whatever you have to do to get it. As long as it's not against someone else."
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"I haven't actually spoken to my parents since the hurricane."
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"My parents own a restaurant in Albuquerque."
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"My parents were in short street, so they had to go abroad to economize."
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"My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants."
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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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"A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone."
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"My biggest musical influences are probably my parents."
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"I played piano as a kid; I still play a little bit."
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"I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar."
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"But, if there's any aspect of my career that needs attention, it's writing."
Attention
"The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts."
People
"I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music."
Music
"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."
Home
"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."
Idea
"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 grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful."
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