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"I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family took so much of my time, I didn't have a chance to be with him very often."
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"To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible."
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"I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father."
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"I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me."
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"Dad made it to Gold Shield Detective, so he always busted Robin, my oldest brother, and me. Always got caught, whatever we were doing."
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"My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918."
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"What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason."
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"I would ask my dad what he did, and he'd say, 'I listen to people's problems.' In some way what he did for a living is in my genes."
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"My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager."
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"My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover."
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"I'll never forget my father's response when I told him I wanted to be a lawyer. He said, 'If you do this, no man will ever want you.'"
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"What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you're gone, you're history."
Business
"There are a lot of people who would laugh at the idea of me being a good singer."
People
"After things started to happen here, my choice of material was extremely limited. It was a weird situation."
Choice
"I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family took so much of my time, I didn't have a chance to be with him very often."
Father
"I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and don't give them a lot of credence."
People
"Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his films and they've suddenly discovered you. That was a real gift that Quentin gave me."
Music
"His last 2 shows in the U.S. were in Chicago and St. Louis. I don't know what made me go on the trip with him, but I'm so very glad I did. They were two of the finest concerts I've ever seen."
Chicago
"I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in."
Fame
"I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to."
Artist
"I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked at that time."
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