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• The audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative.
• Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and…
• Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order…
• I don't want anything to get in the way of me and my singing. I want my mind as clear as possible.
• When you worry your face will frown, that will bring everybody down, so don't worry BE HAPPY!:)
• I'd actually been making my living as an organist with bands since I was probably 15 or 16 years old, and then…
• My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.
• Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with…
• I like a very dark house, just black. I sit there and just think. Once I'm still and quiet inside, I'll begin.…
• Sometimes mistakes are the best thing that can happen, because they might lift you...out of your complacency, and open your mind up…
• Then I came up with this crazy idea just to walk out on the stage with no band at all and just…
• Miles Davis turned his back to the audience when he came out on stage, and he offended people. But, he wasn't there…

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