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I was immersed in popular songs of the time, of the '30s and '40s. I was writing songs, making fun of the attitudes of those songs, in the musical style of the songs themselves; love songs, folk songs, marches, football.

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I always prided myself on at least trying to be literate and use the right words, and if the audience didn't get it, then they could go home and look it up.

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If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend or, perhaps to strike a loved one, it will all have been worth the while.

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When you're in a public profession like I was, and you stop doing it like I did, people think you're either crazy or dead.

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I stopped performing because I don't have the temperament of a performer. You have to want to do the same thing over and over again. Once I got it right, I didn't want to do it again. I always use the analogy of a novelist who has to read his novel in public night after night. I just didn't want to do it.

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San Francisco is a city of twenty-something millionaire white kids named Doug.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: April 9th, 1928

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