A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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In 1974, when the city of Boston was desegregating its schools, I watched the news with my dad and saw the police escorts in riot gear, the protesters screaming at the buses, small frightened faces in their windows.
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New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a residual of life; it's a part of life. Music is at every major milestone of our life: birth, marriage, death. It's our culture.
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The key, I always thought, to my career would be diversity - a diversity of not only the type of work that you do but the mediums.
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Juilliard gave me the ability to go and do classical, contemporary, comedy, drama, everything.
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