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Well, I'm not one of those people who needs the limelight. If I'm performing, that's what I'm doing. If I'm not, I don't long for it. I don't need the approval of an audience, or applause.

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The moment of creative impulse is what an artist gives you. You look at a Pollock, and it can't give you the tools to do a painting like that yourself, but in doing the work, Pollock shares with you the moment of creative impulse that drove him to do that work.

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I have great respect for my parents. I got such beautiful things from both of them. It doesn't mean that we didn't have our rough times, but they were remarkable people who were open-minded, creative and hard-working, and had great senses of humor.

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I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else.

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We have such a great depth of human history in all of the arts, whether it's opera or mathematics or painting or classical music or jazz. There's so many things to study, new books to read, and certainly always ways to transform old ideas and to come up with new ones.

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I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living.

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When I was a young girl, I'd love giving book reports.

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I was in musical comedy. And I did very well, but the memorization killed me. I'm not good at memorizing, and it gave me a lot of anxiety. I hated the makeup. I hated all that pancake makeup. I didn't really like dressing for parts.

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I liked being on stage; I just didn't like the theatrical aspect of being in front of people.

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Pop music has always been about the mainstream and what appeals to the public.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: December 30th, 1946

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