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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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"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."
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"This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway."
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"Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth."
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"I was about sixteen when I discovered that music could get you laid, so I got into music boy, didn't matter what you looked like either, you could be a geeky looking guy but if you played music, whoa, you'd get the girls."
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"Music is happiness with a steady pulse."
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"Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory."
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"Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows."
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"If you have a recital to do, you have to memorize the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It produces an instant barrier, both for yourself and the audience."
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"I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs."
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"In my view a jazz musician is a great musician."
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"My biggest musical influences are probably my parents."
Parents
"I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music."
Music
"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."
Time
"I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful."
Time
"I'd actually been making my living as an organist with bands since I was probably 15 or 16 years old, and then as a senior in high school I put together a jazz quintet called The Bobby Mack Jazz Quintet."
Jazz
"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
"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."
College
"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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"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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"My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up."
Father
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