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Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Economics
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Nov 07, 2020

Both economics and politics are false sciences.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

I've always felt I struck out with Doris Day. Her son, Terry Melcher, was a producer I worked for at Columbia, and one day, he asked me to go to her house to play piano on a song she was doing. So I get there, and she has about 30 dogs running around the place - turns out she's a dog rescuer.

Frank
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Nov 07, 2020

I played on a few Frank Sinatra sessions.

Pretty
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm pretty serious about what I do.

Music
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Nov 07, 2020

I had a band with David Gates. There was just a lot of opportunity at that time. But I left for Los Angeles the week after I graduated high school, and I actually left to try to get into the advertising business. That was really why I went out to L.A. My music career was almost an accident.

Nov 07, 2020

I didn't start out to become famous, so when it disappeared, I thought, well, that happens sometimes.

I Wish
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Nov 07, 2020

I wish I had gone into industrial plumbing. That's a joke.

He
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Nov 07, 2020

I would have to say Sam Cooke is the one I admired most. His artistry and vocal, just the way he did it.

Happy
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Nov 07, 2020

I am happy with what comes, I don't have expectations of any stature.

Nov 07, 2020

I was playing with George Harrison one time, and George loves takes. This song was up to Take 160. I said, 'George, do you want me to play the same thing or 160 different things?' It drove me crazy because, in general, I'm ready to play my part.

Giving
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Nov 07, 2020

My feet are giving out on me. But I have a wheelchair that folds out on my tour bus. I've also got this little tricycle, so if I want to go someplace, I get those out.

Imagine
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Nov 07, 2020

I was on the road with Jerry Lee Lewis when I was 15 - I can't imagine not doing it. That's what I do.

Design
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Nov 07, 2020

My chops have always been sort of weak, because the right side of my body was paralyzed a little bit. It was very limiting. I have to design stuff I can play, and it took me a year and a half to figure out how to hold a guitar pick.

Nov 07, 2020

I have damaged nerve endings on the right side, so my piano style comes from designing stuff I can play with my right hand. And some of it effectively mimics classical stuff.

Out
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Nov 07, 2020

I started out playing 'Chopsticks.'

I Love
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Nov 07, 2020

I love bipolar people.

Money
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Nov 07, 2020

I was always trying to write standards, songs that anybody can sing. I figured that's where the money was.

Nov 07, 2020

For years and years, I would sit in my studio, and I wouldn't have any inspiration. I'd write one or two songs a year.

Business
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Nov 07, 2020

I think probably my main advice to new artists is if you want to be in the music business, you need to be dang serious about it because it's a rough business.

Nov 07, 2020

Sometimes one misses the sign posts as you're going down the road. They aren't as obvious as they become when you get to the end of the road, so to speak.

Just
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Nov 07, 2020

Karen Carpenter was just a singularly amazing singer. There was just not anybody like her.

Job
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm happy to have a job. I play a little, write a little, perform some. It's not like it's an engineered, well-manufactured plan or anything. I just do what I do.

Guy
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Nov 07, 2020

I belonged to the Columbia Record Club, and that's where my records came from. For some reason, I was in the 'jazz' category. I got Benny Goodman records and Miles Davis, J.J. Johnson and Kai Winding, and that kind of stuff. I really was not a jazz guy at all, but I knew some of those names.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't think there's any danger of me playing Indian music. However, I did a song of George Harrison's 'Beware of Darkness' that was kind of like that. That was an illusion. I was playing that on a thumbtack piano, and Jim Gordon was playing tablas. He's an amazing player. That was as close to India as I ever got.

Certain Things
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Nov 07, 2020

I like the Beatles very much, and there are certain things about the Stones that I like.

Doing
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Nov 07, 2020

I was with my band at a karaoke bar in Japan when it was very big there, and they got up and made fools of themselves without practicing properly. I didn't understand why they were doing that. It was like they were making fun of the genre by performing badly. But I didn't get up and sing, so I don't know what it feels like.

Been
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Nov 07, 2020

I've always sort of been at odds with radio programmers.

Go
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Nov 07, 2020

For a couple of years, I'd work from 6 to 11 P.M., then 1 to 5 A.M., and then got up and tried to go to school. That was pretty rough, but I got a lot of experience playing music.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

California always struck me as a police state.

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

It's like, baseball is a very good game, but it's very difficult to explain to somebody, if you stop and think about it. I just feel my life is like that.

Believe
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Nov 07, 2020

The first canon of my religion is that you shouldn't try to convince anybody to believe like you do.

Politics
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Nov 07, 2020

When I say I don't get involved in politics, I merely mean that I don't talk to reporters about it.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

I've avoided the press and a lot of stuff that would have made me more visible just because it's not my style.

Nov 07, 2020

My hobby is silence.

Politically
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm almost totally politically inactive.

Happy
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Nov 07, 2020

If everybody'd agree to quit using money, I'd be happy to play for free every day for awhile. But I don't play benefits or any kind of fund-raisers. I prefer to play at hospitals, for people who otherwise can't see us. But I can't see playing for causes, whatever the cause may be.

Peace
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm not so much of a person for causes, unless I specifically - for instance, if it's my cause, or some poor people's, I'll try to help. But you won't find me playing for any peace candidates - or any candidates.

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