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I listen to Steely Dan. I really like Steely Dan.
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Irving Berlin just knows how to touch ya. It`s a wonderful thing to discover this about music, even though I`ve loved music all my life.
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An old friend of mine is doing Buffalo Bill. The ensemble is quite terrific. It`s got a great energy, and it`s a thoroughly enjoyable evening.
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I did I Love My Wife on Broadway in 1978, and then went into television land. Now things are starting to come together in the way I thought they might when I was a kid.
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I have no experience performing that music live in front of an audience. So that remains to be seen. I`m very excited to see what that`s going to be like.
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With Schubert, a lot of the melodies are very simple, but he`s in this groove. He`s in touch with his heart.
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As I`ve gone along, I felt like I was discovering an aspect of my voice that I didn`t know was there: an ability to interpret a song in a way that makes it more accessible.
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I`ve made it clear to my agents that I want more interesting stuff.
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It`s amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.
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There`s a guy at the record company who`s 30, and he says, I would not listen to these songs except in this context. Somehow the recording process, the arrangements, make it more accessible.
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The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock outgrowth of my popular music aspirations.
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When Billie Holiday sings a song, I hear the song, but I always hear her and her truth.
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I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I`ve sung a lot of different things.
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These classic shows deserve to be revived. Otherwise, people have no context for these great songs which become such a visceral part of our awareness.
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There were a couple of years when I wanted to be a football player, but I really always wanted to be a singer.
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I`m facing upstage, with my back to the audience, and the spotlight comes up on my back as I start singing.
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I had no real specific dream, other than I really wanted to do musical comedy. Even before that, when I was a small child, I wanted to be a singer.
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I think now I`m being taken a little more seriously. That`s pure conjecture on my part.
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When you`re doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there`s a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs!
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