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Don't worry.... Be happy.

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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.

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The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts.

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If I can delay that pain for a moment and bring a little joy. . . and help them to see things a little differently, then I'll be successful.

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If I can bring joy into the world, if I can get people to stop thinking about their pain for a moment, or the fact the tomorrow morning they're going to get up and tell their boss off. . . then I'll be successful.

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But, if there's any aspect of my career that needs attention, it's writing.

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I like to use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.

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Miles Davis turned his back to the audience when he came out on stage, and he offended people. But, he wasn't there to entertain he was all about the music. I kind of do that.

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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.

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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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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 want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories.

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So I went to California State University, the composition department, and I studied composition and orchestration and things like that.

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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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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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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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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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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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If I can delay that for a moment and bring a little joy... and help them to see things a little differently, then I'll be successful.

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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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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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And I just automatically said music. I hadn't really thought about it, but I thought, well I guess I'll be a musician. It was pretty much like that.

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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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