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I travel like a maniac. I travel more than anyone I know. I love learning the languages.

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I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins.

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I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn't have MTV, we didn't have television.

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It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.

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It's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.

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We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old.

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I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.

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I live on the Internet.

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I hope that on my tombstone it says 'Born 1933, died 2043.' I hope that's my legacy.

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I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: March 14th, 1933

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